[ADXA] New Member Standings for Pat, W5VY

[Steve, W5KI]

Excellent Pat, on 10-band DXCC!

Steve, W5KI


On 04-Oct-21 20:50, 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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