[ADXA] Who''d thunk it happening like this

[jayw5jay]

Hi Geoge,BTW, The TPA plaque is a very nice looking.Congrats and 73 de W5JAY Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: WB5JJJ <wb5jjj at gmail.com> Date: 8/4/20  8:33 AM  (GMT-06:00) To: ADXA Mailing List <ADXA at mailman.qth.net> Subject: [ADXA] Who''d thunk it happening like this Not DXCC, but still interesting.  Last night I was on 80m FT8 working on my DXCC there.  (I'll take them any way I can get them.) Added a couple contacts and now waiting on them to upload to LoTW.  Still need about 40.  I had not had a real, workable 80m (or 160m) antenna until about a year ago when I put up a few EFHW's so I'm way behind the curve.  Anyway, back to the story.  I was just happily watching for that next DXCC and out of the blue I saw KV0I calling CQ.  That in itself wasn't all that interesting, but I had been chasing James and another operator from NE for my final CW contact to finish out my Triple Play.  We worked on FT8 and noticed he was also using JTAlert and the F5 messaging.  I texted him and ask if he could work me on CW to complete the Award.  He said yes.  We moved to CW, a bit down the band, where it took a few tries to make it, but we finally did.  During all of this, John, WB5BHS, was listening on HamShack Hotline.  We both uploaded the contact to LoTW almost immediately, thus completing my Triple Play.  I finally beat John at something ham radio.  Interesting thing about all of this was from back in 2014 when ARRL had their Centennial Event, I did a couple 5WAS on SSB and PSK or RTTY to complete those columns.  As each section began to wind down, I shifted to CW and worked 45 states as well during the event.  Since then I've added 4 on CW, but NE was so elusive.  Watched PSKReporter and only saw 2 or 3 CW stations during CW events and James was one of the most consistent ones.  Another item completed.  And no, I won't order the high dollar wallpaper as no one hardly ever visits my shack and thus no one but me would see ever them.  However, the ARRL and I both know that I've completed them.  -- George - WB5JJJ4
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