[ADXA] New Member Standings info for San, K5YY

[HamOP]

TU for posting my new number Pat. I would die from excitement if chasing #3000 the next several years. Ain’t gonna happen.
  Yes, Steve, it was a goal to get to 3000 with non-deleted, current countries but I will have big problems. If I could count my deleted countries on those 10 bands, I would have way over 3000, not sure how many but might be interesting to see by going back to when WARC 79 came in and 10-18-24 came into effect and count deleted countries from there initially, going through 15+ HF log books. 
   Then maybe go back the real old days to the deleted ones I have and count those bands, most would be on 40/20/15m but some on all bands. In those days once you got a new one on any band, some stopped chasing on other bands, so when it was deleted you only had it on one band, maybe 2 or 3. Then when the ARRL single band DXCCs came into full effect, all heck broke loose to work ‘em on as many bands as possible. I am not sure I want to go back to my logs and note ALL my deleted band/country entities, wud take me days, since I also have 6m logs separate from HF logs. ☹ .. Will think about it on my stable days at home! HI
    I do have over 20 countries on 2m but most are EME but 2m does not count.. hi  The only band DXCCs I have are the original 6m and 160m ones that were available. Never wanted to spend application time for many others, only Mix/Phone and CW DXCCs do I chase and endorse anymore.  Not a lot of energy in searching 63 years of logs for deleted entities on the main 7 bands I was on until WARC bands started. Glad the hobby has tweaked more interests with the ARRL working hard to stimulate chasing DX awards.  
   I did chase 5BDXCC and got #499 in 1976 but there were no endorsements. So most got 80-10 meters only before 1976. Never chased any other “X”BDXCC. Too busy with full time job at SSDD as Senior Consultant. Did run home one afternoon to work BY, my last country for Top of HR at the time, March 1983.. Gosh time flies. 
San    Keep up the chase that Joel keeps hounding all of us ADXA members to do!! 😊
    

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From: Steven Rutledge
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:01 AM
To: patw5vy at gmail.com
Cc: adxa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ADXA] New Member Standings info for San, K5YY

Congrats San.  Our goal is catching up with you!

QQ


On Oct 27, 2020, at 10:29 PM, patw5vy at gmail.com wrote:

San, K5YY, has been working to round up QSLs to further his Desoto DXCC Challenge total.   By reviewing QSL’s he had stored away and making fresh requests for QSOs San has added eight new confirmations to his total.  He is now at 2950 verified.  He is hopeful that he will find the remaining 50 confirmations on 40 and 30M and on the higher bands as Cycle 25 starts to provide improved conditions.  
 
Achieving the 3000 level of the DXCC Challenge is probably the most difficult goal to achieve in DXing.  Somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 DXers have achieved the 3K level.  #1 Honor Roll is up there on the difficulty list as well.  Lots of folks waiting on activation of one rare entity….North Korea, Bouvet, etc.  It’s good to have goals!
 
73,
Pat, W5VY
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