LU9ESD
Contests are races.
Contester, DXpeditioner and ham radio addict since 2000.
Every score has a story the log doesn't show.
Sitting down at a great station is a privilege I never take for granted. But some of my favorite contests started days earlier, putting up antennas in the mud and the rain. It's all part of it. Lately, even a trip to the hospital.
That one's a story →Every contest is a different story
I like to tell them so the reader feels part of it.
Every start since 2007
Each bar is one contest: where it sits is when it happened, how tall it stands is the claimed score, the color is the mode. Pick one and it opens with its numbers and, when I wrote one, the full story.
The list starts in 2007 because that's when I started posting on 3830, at my first contest from 6Y1V. Sadly, nothing before that weekend was ever posted.
HD8R, QSO by QSO.
The whole weekend from San Cristóbal, Galápagos, drawn straight from the log. Find your call, see where we met on the bands, and listen if the tape is up.
Times are UTC from the Cabrillo log, to the minute. Audio is online for Sunday 19:49 to 20:00Z. The rest of the 48 hours is on its way.
The two dark bands are off time. Saturday's 8:19 was a trip to the hospital. Read the full story →
HD8R · CQ WW SSB 2026
Oct 24–25 · San Cristóbal, GalápagosEleven minutes of 2BSIQ
Two radios, two run frequencies, one operator. This is what it sounds like from the chair at HD8R on Sunday afternoon, with 15 m and 20 m both open and the weekend finally clicking.
Hit play and the log follows the recording, minute by minute.
15 M ·
20 M ·
Contests are races. This is the broadcast.
Formula 1 has timing screens, onboard cameras and someone explaining what's going on. Contesting had a score list on Monday. ContestScope is how I think our sport should be watched: a live scoreboard and cockpit that lets you follow a contest while it's happening, whether you're in it, cheering for a friend, or have never touched a radio.
Live timing
Who's leading, by how much, and who's closing the gap. Scores move while the contest is on, like a timing tower.
The cockpit
Give it a log and see the race inside it: rate hour by hour and band by band, the best windows, the off times, and how much of it was run on two radios at once.
For everybody
English, Spanish and Portuguese. Built so a contester gets the detail, and someone who isn't a ham still understands who's winning. It's meant to be our TV broadcast.
What it looks like
Radiosport you can watch
Live scores for everyone.I'd love to see every station sending its score live. It's how our radiosport becomes something you can actually watch.
Not only for the competitors.Live scores are for the spectators too, and for the ones who might get on the air next year because they watched a race unfold and wanted in.
Raised between radios and engines
I'm Manu Siebert, born in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires. The radio came from my grandfather, LU4DTT. The engines came from my father, LU2DSS. I never had to choose.
I got on the air in 1997, at eleven, on CB. The rules in Argentina back then didn't let me have a ham license any earlier, so I spent three years there and confirmed more than 200 DXCC entities along the way. LU9ESD came in 2000, as soon as I was allowed. AC1NU, my call in the United States, in 2022.
Over the years, radio has taken me to stations I used to only read about, and to people who welcomed me as one of their own. Every invitation still feels like a gift, and I try to give back by leaving everything in the chair.
I enjoy the comfort of a big station as much as anyone. I also love the other side of it: helping put up the antennas, the mud, the rain. To me that's all part of a contest too.
Sadly, I didn't post any of my early contests on 3830. The first one is my first contest from 6Y1V, in 2007. That's the weekend I went all in on contesting, and where I met the right people, the ones who opened the doors of the world for me.
- 1997On the air at eleven, on CB. 200+ DXCC confirmed in three years.
- 2000LU9ESD, the day the rules let me.
- 2006First multi-op, thanks to an invitation from LU8YE.
- 20076Y1V, Jamaica. First contest posted on 3830, and all in from then on.
- 2022AC1NU.
- Today120+ contests, callsigns signed.
Where I stand
Phone contests are for human voices.No AI, no TTS. If your call is on the air, it should be your throat doing the work.
Win it in the chair.Every decision, every multiplier, every QSO. Respect the category you entered: its rules, and the spirit behind them.
Live scores for everyone.So anyone can watch the race. That's why ContestScope exists.