I have appeared in print a few times over the years mainly for winning the Practical Wireless magazine 144MHz QRP contest. That is I would mostly a national magazine although I know it certainly has some circulation into Europe.
Me as a ‘cover boy’ receiving a trophy for the 2016 PW 144MHz QRP contest:
But this year I have discovered that G1YBB is now published globally!
Following the drama I had getting RTTY mode to work ( https://g1ybb.uk/rtty-setup-on-ic7610-with-dxlog/ ) I have had some good results in world wide RTTY contests. In the CQ WPX RTTY contest I actually set a new single band QRL record which I was really pleased with ( results table ) and also more recently (results released wise) have set a DX (all the World outside of USA) all time record score for a QRP section. This got me (so far) a mention in the August 2025 QST magazine. The report is slightly wrong as I wasn’t using a vertical – I have emailed Jeff to clear that up – maybe I’ll get a mention again in the full article.
Link to the QST article: https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2025/RTTY-RU-2025-FinalQSTResults.pdf
I hadn’t actually noticed this article was online, I found out when I received an email from Hisami 7L4IOU to say congratulations and that he had noticed the mention and looked at my website and thought my contesting information sign was good and could he mention it in the Japanese magazine CQ HamRadio.
https://ham.cqpub.co.jp/
Obviously I said that would be great and we exchanged some more emails and then Hisami said he would send me a copy of the magazine. The last email was dated 6th July 2025.
Well, they certainly don’t mess about in Japan!
I didn’t know if Hisami meant a PDF copy by email or an actual paper copy. But I was only thinking towards the end of last week that if it IS a paper copy he never asked for my address. Then I though I wonder if he will use my (incomplete) address on QRZ as other countries may well not know it is an incomplete address. Before I had any time to think on this further my mum told me a book had come for me from Japan on Saturday 26th July 2025. You can see below the post mark date is 17th July! That 11 days from last email to hard copy in the post. And it’s THICK! And shipped to a partial address!
Opening the package revealed two books. One appeared to be a book of all the areas and regions in Japan and the other thicker one the main magazine.
On opening it I found, not surprisingly, it’s almost 100% Japanese, with the odd sentence/phrase or two readable in English. A good excuse to flick through page by page and see what was in it. I eventually found the section where I thought I might get a mention starting at page 186. (handy the page numbers are readable).
Obviously I can’t read the article but it appears to be a report on the RTTY contet where I get mention with my short call MW1B and some talk about that and then some about the contesting sign and some other general stuff about me from my website. Cool.
It has to be said, Amateur Radio really does cross all boundaries and makes the World a smaller place! Wonder if I can get G1YBB now published globally in another corner of the World?