Report 2023
Dear Colleague and Dear Colleague OM,
we present a brief summary of the past year.
In mid-2023 we received, with the request to relaunch the DCS, the handover for this diploma.
We immediately wanted to take a step back and go back to the foundation where the Swiss Amateur Radio Group of Castelli created the DCS but also an update by creating the Team World Castles Award Switzerland to promote the activations.
We created a website hb9castles.ch, but with the background color of the site WCA -World Castles Award-, remaining in the spirit of the founders WCA.
To stimulate the activations, we created Challenge best activator of the year and also the Challenge Hunter of the Year. These challenges recognize the top three classified in the category activator (HB9WCA does not participate in this challenge) and hunter.
A certificate will be sent to all participants as a thank you for participating in DCS activities.
Since May 15 we have had at LOG almost 6000 QSO of which over 2500 unique calls in 26 activations (16 with the call HB9WCA). Thanks to the collaboration of Marco IU0FBK, diplomiradio.it, we have an automated management of rankings, sending and QSL recognition.
To thank those who supported us the most, we decided to nominate, together with the promoters of Swiss Amateur Radio Group of Castles, the Honorary Promoters in the people of OM HB9FBI, Luciano, IU0FBK, Marco and Amateurfunk Verein Liechtenstein.
The reasons on this page.
Now we move into the near future
From 1 January, the Liechtenstein castles will also be part of the DCS.
One last thing to say.
To join the common language in the OM world we decided to standardize communications and documents in English (a process that will take us the first weeks of 2024).
We know that one of the riches of Switzerland is multilingualism with its four languages, but here we want to be radio amateurs.
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Team Swiss Amateur Radio Group of Castles