[ADXA] DX Challenge 3000 Achieved !!!!!!!

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Thanks to everyone for your emails. I appreciate them. It has been quite 
an interesting day.

At the end of this past 160 meter season and with the Bouvet trips in 
the crapper I feared it would be sometime before I finished off the last 
few I needed to reach 3000. I never dreamed we would see 6 meter 
conditions again this soon like we did once upon a time, but it has done 
the trick!

I actually added three more new ones since my last email, OH0Z, ES5PC 
and YL3KW. The LoTW ticker is sitting at 2999 so if one of those others 
uses LoTW then I can claim my prize without sending in the paper record 
I'm holding, but I now have some pad to go above the 3,000 mark.

By the way, I worked a couple of SM's today on CW who didn't work FT8 
and asked me if I could move down to 50098.0 to run, which I gladly did. 
Sigs were 559 on CW with them so pay attention there as well.

I hope all of you grabbed a new or more today. K5EJ and I were passing 
spots and info on our "secret frequency" during the openings today and I 
know he nabbed some new ones.

Stay alert, we could have a repeat tomorrow morning and also stay alert 
as this prop runs like a sine wave....its up for a bit, disappears then 
is back up again later.

Remember, K5UR told us just a few days ago to be ready for this!!!

73 Joel W5ZN

On 2020-06-17 13:58, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
> This morning, thanks to the 6 meter EU opening, I added two new DXCC
> countries to my totals, LY1G and UR0MC. That brings my DX Challenge
> total to 3000, a lifelong goal achieved!!! Both of those stations have
> already confirmed via LoTW (a beautiful thing!). I have two QSL
> confirmations I need to send in for the final number to make the
> official counter tick to 3K, but I am ecstatic to say the least!
> 
> One goal down, one to go and that his hitting the 300 mark on 160
> meters. I am currently at 282.
> 
> 73 Joel W5ZN