[ADXA] VUCC on 6m and FFMA as well

[WB5JJJ]

I've never paid much attention to the VUCC, but I did check on it this
morning and realized that I have 342 on 6m alone.  A whopping 2 on 144Mhz
and an incredible 1 on 432Mhz.  Overall, I only need AK and HI for WAS on
6m, but did pick up a JA a couple days ago.  Where was AK as I was beaming
directly over them?  That brings me up to 32 DXCC on the "magic band".
Long way to go for DXCC on here.

While on the page, I checked the Fred Fish MA and found I had 267 grid
squares out of the 388 contiguous USA that are available.  I guess I need
to work on this some more.

And I've only had 6m capabilities for about 10 years now.  As I never had
any metal before then that would successfully tune 6m.  That is until I got
the Mosley in 2012 and coupled it with my IC-7410 from 2010, at which time
I was finally able to work 6m properly.  I added the m2 5-element, 6m
monobander in 2013 and I was off to the races.

I DO NOT OWN OR USE ANY AMPLIFIERS.  These are all barefoot (abt 90w or
less) contacts.  My antennae do all the heavy lifting.  If I got an
amplifier, I would have to delete all my logs and start over with the
higher power -- right?  Don't think that is how it works.

In checking my log, I have 4,175 contacts on 6m, including the "new kids on
the block" of, FT8 with 1,827, FT4 with 169, and 92 on MSK144.  The old
standby of JT65 with 74, 4 on CW, and the final 2,009 are on SSB.  Of this
group only 2,590 have confirmed via LoTW, which is 62%, close to my average
of 65% overall in my LogBook count of 24,136.  The number tend to make me
believe that some folks have worked me more than once -- you think?  I
know, I had one guy call me at least 3 times the other day on 6m FT8.  I
logged the first one and worked the rest, but did not log them.  Must have
been a robot operator.

AK has been spotted on 50.125, so I'm heading there to get him while the
getting is good.

73's

-- 
George - WB5JJJ


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