Contests
Trough the years 1976 - 2004 I have 24 WW victories (last one the Ukrainian SSTV Contest 2004) and several second and other places in SSTV contests.
Note:
IVCA (International Visual Communications Association) WW SSTV DX Contest 2000. Winner is SM5EEP and former President W6FVV, Lew Tepfer wrote in VISION Summer 2000:
"Nils, Sm5eep has won the award many
times and now qualifies to have possession of the grand award and
he can keep it until some body takes first place world wide more
than he has. I think he will have our major trophy for a long
time. Nils we will send you the trophy as soon as we have it
engraved. We will print a picture of it in the next issue of
"VISION". SEE FRONTPAGE !
SM5EEP comments:
IVCA contest
2000 was IVCA # 14. I have been in all of them. 9 times the first place, 4 times the
second place and 1time the fourth place. I try for
1 more victory 2001 (however canceled 2001 in con-
sequence of W6FVV's decease). SM5EEP do not try again 2002, I have"time
out" from the IVCA contests
so that other than SM5EEP can be the winner.
Awards
IVCA DXAA FOR
100 COUNTRIES TO SM5EEP.
( W5ZR, Bert in IVCA
Newsletter VISION, September 1996 )
The 100 country
mark has been reached in the IVCA DX
Achievement Award Program by SM5EEP.
Nils has been active on slow scan for 25 years, and has been
actively chasing DX for all that period.
His big signal is well known world wide. Nils reports that he
actually has 118 countries worked on SSTV, but has not been able
to pry cards from 18 of them.
So, a big tip of the hat to the top SSTV DX'er, SM5EEP, for being #1 in the DXAA program with 100 SSTV countries, Congratulations Nils on an outstanding DX performance..
The 200 country mark reached
February
2001 and
registered in the IVCA DXAA Program
August 20, 2001. 11 New DXCC are registered in
March 21, 2002. I am
happy to hear W5ZR saying
this is an achievement not reached by any
other operator anywhere in the world. W5ZR
letter also told me :"Sorry to inform you that the
IVCA DX Achievement Award Program will be terminated this month". I am unable to
continue the program. I have been hoping for some time that ARRL
would include SSTV as part of DXCC program. Perhaps with the
increased activity today, they might soon include it as one of
the digital modes they recognize.
You
find all my DXCC on the Frontpage under Hot SSTV DXCC Pictures, just now 279 SSTV DXCC of these unconfirmed 1.
IVCA SSTV DXAA certificate # 001 of 8 November, 1994
IVCA SSTV WAS certificate # 002 of 12 February, 2001
SSTV WAZ certificate # 002 of 18 July, 2000.
(qualified for SSTV WAZ in 1996).
ARRL SSTV
WAS certificate #
32 of 13 February, 2001
DANISH SSTV DX AWARD, DIAMOND # 1 of June 8, 2002