The invitation from Karl DL4RU and Inge DL9RBI to their town for a double castle activation ended very successfully.
The idea to bring two new castle entries in the HBD-weekend (3 year anniversary of WCA) on january 14th resulted in a great score of 455 QSOs in less than four hours. Beside the WCA-counters DL-02826 and DL-02827 also the WFF-park-counter DLFF-093 was given and the pileups sometimes were tremendous.

QSL as usual via DL7RAG via buro.
Report from the activation can be found here in PDF-format.

At saturday, january 14, DA0CW/p will be QRV from the town of Neustadt
putting out two new castles with one contact with the old and the new palace of Neustadt.
This will be an activity celebrating the HBD-weekend, the three year anniversary of the WCA-award-program.

Beside the two new castles this contact is also valid for nature-park DLFF-093
Naturepark Nördlicher Oberpfälzer Wald.
Foto-QSL for the contact will be automatically sent by our QSL-manager DL7RAG
(you don´t need to send your own card).
Operators Karl DL4RU and Manfred DF6EX
Starting Time around 0900 UTC.

As my final 18th operation this year under DA0CW and OK8WFF I´ve decided to use the silent days just before the new year to put DA0CW/p in the air from my home-castle Falkenberg, just directly in my view when looking out of the window.
About seven hours with tests on various bands generated altogether 339 contacts in my log.
This put the 2011 Falkenberg QSO-score up to 2300 contacts at all, our most activated castle, hi.
The eight other new castle-portable-operations altogether finished with 1564 contacts. So Team DA0CW/OK8WFF made in 2011 more than 3900 castle-contacts, together with nearly 7000 WFF-contacts an increadible result, thanks to all callers.
A short report about the operation can be found here.
New year season is planned to start at january 14 with another new one castle operation celebrating the three years anniversary of WCA on Happy Birthday Castle-day.
Hope to meet you there from another new one. QSL as always automatically via DL7RAG (you don´t need to send your card) plus upload to the WCA-database.
73, 44, 11, Manfred -DF6EX-

Another one was possible due to the extreme dry weather this autumn/pre winter. We decided to activate the Castle of Thumsenreuth cause we had not too big distance to the location there and wanted to make a short activity because it was dry however only around 7 degrees. So mast and wire-antennas must rest at home, only the mobile-Outbacker-antenna with magnetic foot was taken to keep the building of the station short. Altogether the operation lasted good 1,5 hours on 18 and 14 MHz SSB only. 140 QSOs were made with VK3FT from Melbourne as the ODX. Beside the activation from a new castle the operation was also valid for World Flora Faune Nature Park Steinwald DLFF-119. A small activation-report can be found under this link.
All contacts were uploaded to WCA-database and also Igor EW4DXs WFF-database. All contacts will be confirmed automatically via buro.
73, 44, 11, Manfred DF6EX

At october, 2nd I made a trip to the nature-park Oberer Bayerischer Wald DLFF-097. This was the second operation from there and the number of interested callers was high. Finally in 2,5 hours I could manage to make 246 contacts, 85 percent in SSB.
Activity was on 40 and 20 meters only with FT450 and double dipole.
QSL for this activity as usual via DL7RAG, you don´t need to send a card.
All QSOs will be confirmed automatically via buro.
More detailled report in PDF-format can be downoaded here.
73, 44, Manfred -DF6EX- (DA0CW, OK8WFF)

Beside some QSOs I tried to test the trap-dipole from Xaver DK4RM for 30 and 17 meter that I can use this bands in future solo trips with more performance. Modified the mast a bit that I can more rapid change the wire-systems. Altogether 211 contacts in a bit more than 2 hours were made from the near of Kynzvart in Slavkovsky Les. 55 percent of them in CW with a nice visit from a nice animal
Lets save the green planet and in those situations also our own.
More about the story can be found here as PDF-document.
Thanks to my xyl for taking part on such short termed trips with always another surprise.
QSL-cards are printed and will leave to the buro coming week. Also upload for EW4DX-database is already done.
73, 44, Manfred DF6EX, OK8WFF

As I was quite busy the last weeks with activations the reviews for the activities appear a bit delayed. My activity nr. 14 this year was from nature-park Veldensteiner Forst / Fränkische Schweiz. It lasted altogether about 2,5 hours and generated 224 contacts. All QSL-cards are written and on the way to you via the bureau. Also the logs are already uploaded to EW4DX-database and confirmed. Equipment: YAESU FT450-AT with double-dipole, Mikrokeyer II powered from a separate battery. Logging with N1MM on an Acer Netbook. More infos about the activity can be found in this PDF-report. Thanks for the QSOs and the SWL-reports.
73, 44, till the next time, Manfred -DF6EX-

Team DA0CW/p (Günther DC2RK – Xaver DK4RM – Manfred DF6EX) was active from nature-park “Steigerwald” DLFF-117 on saturday, 17 2011. Due to the weather-report we changed our planned QTH and were active from Viereth-Trunstadt. Activity started as planned at 0655 UTC with two stations on 40/30/20/17 meters. Total QSO-result was 935 contacts. 421 contacts in CW makes a mix of 45% CW and 55% SSB. Altogether 829 unique calls got the new park multiplier in their log. Log was sent to EW4DX for upload. QSL-cards are already ordered and will be sent to the bureaus in about six weeks. QSL DA0CW/p via DL7RAG. You don´t need to send your card. All contacts will be confirmed automatically. Thanks to the QSL-card sponsors who made it possible to send out another special colour QSL for this activity. A detailled report about the activity can be found here. Reports for all our previous activations you find below.
Our location was closed to the river main. On the picture below with the ship you can see in the background the hills from nature-park Hassberge DLFF-064, were we made the activation four weeks ago.
73, 44, Manfred -DF6EX- for Team DA0CW/p

DA0CW/p 17.09.2011 DLFF-117 Nature Park Steigerwald
DA0CW/p 20.08.2011 DLFF-064 Nature Park Hassberge
DA0CW/p 06.08.2011 DLFF-098+WCA-DL-02342 Castle of Reichenstein
DA0CW/p 30.07.2011 DLFF-067 Nature Park Hirschwald
OK8WFF/p 17.07.2011 OKFF-012 Nature Park Cesky Les
DA0CW/p 10.07.2011 DLFF-093+WCA-DL-02338 Castle of Flossenbürg
OK8WFF/p 03.07.2011 OKFF-006+WCA-OK-00273 Castle of Kynzvart
DA0CW/p 02.07.2011 DLFF-093+WCA-DL-02339 Castle of Leuchtenberg
DA0CW/p 30.06.2011 WCA DL-02335 Castle of Falkenberg
DA0CW/p 25.06.2011 WCA DL-02348 Castle of Fockenfeld
DA0CW/p 21.05.2011 DLFF-119+WCA-DL-02346 Nature Park Steinwald
DA0CW/p 07.05.2011 DLFF-060 Nature Park Frankenwald
DA0CW/p 17.04.2011 DLFF-058 Nature Park Fichtelgebirge
DA0CW/p 22.08.2010 DLFF-098 Nature Park Oberpfälzer Wald
DA0CW/p 22.08.2010 DLFF-097 Nature Park nördlicher bayerischer Wald
OK8WFF/p 08.08.2010 OKFF-006 Nature Park Slavkovsky Les
DF6EX/p 18.07.2010 DLFF-067 Nature Park Hirschwald
OK8WFF/p 29.05.2010 OKFF-012 Nature Park Cesky Les
DA0CW/p 02.05.2010 DLFF-119 Nature Park Steinwald
DA0CW/p 18.04.2010 DLFF-058 Nature Park Fichtelgebirge

At august 20, Team DA0CW/p activated the nature-park Haßberge DLFF-064 for the first time. Conditions were very changeable and the results on 20 meter not as expected. Especially during the running contest-activities it was difficult on 20 meter CW at all. So main-band this time again was 40 meters. However under the circumstances we finally were satisfied with the end-result of 829 QSOs with 774 unique stations. 60 percent SSB and 40 percent CW. Team consisted by Günther DC2RK, Xaver DK4RM and Manfred DF6EX. The location was in the lower corner of the nature-park near the town of Ebern. All QSOs will be confirmed automatically with a special DA0CW/p-color-WFF-QSL-card which comes via our QSL-manager DL7RAG. (you don´t need to send your own card). This raises our this years activity to a total of nearly 5500 QSO. Together with the last-year activations we brought you around 9000 contacts in your logs. So many thanks for calling (or hearing) us. A detailled report can be found here in PDF-format as Download. The log-upload to EW4DX-database will be sent today, so expect your credit in a few days. Thank you and see you from anywhere. Manfred -DF6EX- for Team DA0CW/p