From 1 to 25 December, the UKBOTA (UK Bunkers On The Air) group organized an Advent activity in which stations operating from British bunkers with specific bunker references had to be logged each day. This sparked a great deal of…

Traditionally, during the month of December, many young people take to the air with a YOTA (Youngsters On The Air) special event station. It took me some effort, but I still managed to scrape together 65 points. See this webpage…

As you may have read before, I don’t necessarily chase the many activations in nature reserves. Still, every now and then an award does end up landing in my inbox.

It’s not just the hunt for British bunkers that’s paying off. The Belgian bunkers are stepping up too and refusing to be outdone. In fact, I’ve just earned the Ruby Award for 250 bunkers worked on Belgian soil.

Barely a month after starting my bunker hunt, I’ve already hung the certificate for having worked 300 British bunkers on my wall. Wow… that escalated quickly. To be fair, the ongoing “Advent 25” event might have had something to do…

I’m happy to add the NARU 90 Award to my collection. NARU was the predecessor of today’s IARU member societies in Scandinavia. To mark this anniversary, the station OZ90NARU was active from Denmark.

The bunkers are dropping like flies from the sky — honestly, at this point I’m just waiting for one to land in my backyard.Meanwhile, I’ve received my glorious award for completing 200 worked references from the United Kingdom. If productivity…

Until November 11, Bunkers On The Air (BOTA) was pretty much unexplored territory for me. Thanks to the Armistice Day activities, I somehow got swept along into the whole thing—like a radio-obsessed tourist accidentally stumbling into a bunker. The result?…

It’s not every day that you earn a certificate from your own country. I worked the special event station OS90OSA on at least five different bands and received this award in the mail. The station is on the air to…