[ADXA] Pakistan confirmed

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

That's a nice one, Nick, but I have to confess I just checked my log to
see, if by chance, AP2MQ was in my log from July 1980 and if I was one
of the "fumers" standing by!!!    

You're clean, I wasn't :-)))) 

ZN 

On 2020-11-24 07:06, Nick Kennedy wrote:

> George, I was hoping for a clean sweep in the CW SS but those pesky Canadians did me in too. Missed NL, NT and MAR. 
> 
> The Pakistan story reminded me of one of my DX stories. I don't have many since I'm just a dilettante / fair-weather DXer. But the weather was very fair for DX in July 1980. Pre-internet, we'd sometimes exchange spots over the Mt. Nebo repeater.  
> 
> Local DX chaser Bill, K5HTF called me up on 2 as he was working AP2MQ on 15 meter SSB. I can't believe he had the audacity, but he asks the guy, "Hey, will you listen for my buddy across town?  Oh, and he doesn't work phone, so do you have a key?"  I'd tuned to the frequency and in a little while I hear the guy calling me in medium slow CW on a straight key. I exchanged reports with him and put him in the log. I can only imagine how the other US stations waiting to work AP2MQ were fuming while all this was going on. 
> 
> But that's just part one of the story. Some time later, I received his QSL - but it's blank!  That threw me into an ethical quandary. OK, I know I worked him so I could just fill it out, but I think there's a hard rule of DX QSLing that says no blank QSLs. So I put it aside to ponder and a month or two later a second QSL arrived, this time filled out and signed. Problem solved. 
> 
> 73- 
> 
> Nick, WA5BDU 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 8:38 AM WB5JJJ <wb5jjj at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>> I know it's not a big deal to many of you, but on Sunday, I got confirmation on LoTW of a couple of contacts with AP2AM on 20m.  Of course they were the typical fish in a barrel, but FT8 did come through and moved me to 260 after sitting at 259 for most of this year. 
>> 
>> Hopefully before the end of the year, I will update my DXCC Standing with 1150 Challenge points.  Less than 10 to go.  If I could actually work some DX on160m, it might become really interesting.  But my noise level typically sits around S7 to S9 most nights.  Of course it was +20 until I finally tracked down a wall wart for POE about a month ago and removed from service.  Great price on that unit if anybody is interested.   
>> 
>> Not DXCC, but still. I did have fun with the ARRL SS (phone) this past weekend.  Managed to get yet another WAS and even a few Canadians.  Needed just five more of our northern brethren to make it a clean sweep.  Only heard PE and it was a huge pileup even when he ran by numbers.  Never did get him.  Didn't really try that hard either.  But NT, NL, MAR and QC (of all places) were not heard by me.   
>> 
>> Weather observations:  Major fog this morning in Russellville and mid 30's.  Had about .75" of rain Sunday morning.  Lots of leaves on the ground but the Oaks aren't turning loose as quickly as the pecans.   
>> 
>> 73's
>> 
>> George - WB5JJJ 
>> 
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