[ADXA] New Member Standings for Pat, W5VY

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Outstanding achievements, Pat - CONGRATS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ZN

On 2021-10-04 19:50, patw5vy at gmail.com wrote:

> This spring I ended the 160M season with 101 Worked and 96 confirmed.  
> I finally managed to round up the cards for 100.  Same sort of thing 
> happened on 6M. I had started the year with 76 confirmed and was on at 
> the right time to catch a couple of really nice openings to EU.   I got 
> to 101 worked and finally got LOTW and QSLs to make the DXCC threshold. 
> . Djuro, 4O6AH, sent a reply QSL twice but I never received it.  I 
> lucked out and caught 4O3A one morning and got LOTW in hours.  FS/W8HC 
> was the one that got me to 100. I made my first 6M QSO in January 2012. 
>  I worked a couple of XEs on CW and thought that was very cool.  One 
> afternoon I saw Bob, ZL1RS, spotted and just for grins tuned to his CW 
> freq.  I was amazed when I heard him and shocked when he came back to 
> me.  I was running a IC7000, 100W to a 3L M2 yagi at about 16ft.  I was 
> hooked on 6M from that point on.  I started the winter with about 35 
> confirmed on 160.  All CW/SSB.  Most of the "new" entities were FT8…a 
> few CW Qs into EU on good nights.   Thanks to Earl, N5ZM, for taking 
> time out of his busy schedule to check my cards. It was great getting 
> to talk to someone about DX in person!  Earl's station and antenna farm 
> are looking/performing great.
> 
> So, by the skin of my teeth I now have DXCC on 10 bands.  It took me 
> about 40 years to make Mixed DXCC.  Never thought 5B DXCC was possible. 
>   Also, thanks to the really sweet 2M Sporadic E opening on the Sunday 
> of Field Day, I worked three new states (NY, CT and DE), two new 
> Canadian Provinces and 18 new grids on 2M FT8/SSB over about a three 
> hour opening.  I got enough LOTW hits to apply for VUCC on 2M.  I have 
> enough cards to get to about 135 now.   It's all fun!
> 
> Congrats to Rory, K5CKS, on reaching the 425 level on 6M VUCC.  I'm 
> hoping that K5UR guy is legitimate …..he signed my two new DXCC 
> certificates also!
> 
> 73 es DX,
> 
> Pat, W5VY
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