ZS6EZ's Radio Stories Page

Last updated 2012-01-18


This page contains a few narratives, mainly about amateur radio contests. I may dig out some ancient articles about DXpeditions and various other follies and add them to the site, some day.

  • The long and the short of it, the story of ZS3Z and 3DA0/ZS6BCR in 1988. Extracted from The DX Magazine, September 1989. Reproduced here by kind permission of Carl Smith N4AA of DX Publications.
  • The ZS9Z/ZS1 Penguin Island story, the story of the largest ever operation from the Penguin Islands. Extracted from The DX Magazine, April 1991. Reproduced here by kind permission of Carl Smith N4AA of DX Publications.
  • The 1999 CQ World Wide DX CW Contest: About breaking the old world record comfortably, and then being beaten by a 1% margin (hosted at Contesting.com).
  • The 2000 CW World Wide DX CW Contest: A problem-plagued effort with a happy ending.
  • The 2000 ARRL 10 m Contest: ZS6Z on Autopilot: JM1CAX piloting the station to another world win.
  • The G3IOR on Satellite DXCC: Pat, who holds Certificate # 2, tells the story of how they managed to do it with LEOs.
  • The Chasing DXCC: A narrative by ZS6EZ on how some of the South African DXCC lists came to look like they do.

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