[ADXA] fun weekend on ten meters

Thu Dec 15 05:47:16 EST 2022

Congrats on the WAS Dennis.

If you're still seeking Delaware on a mode or band, contact Jon, AA1K. 
He's a buddy of mine and a BIG GUN and will gladly schedule a time to 
fix you up. His email address should be on QRZ.com.

73 Joel W5ZN

On 2022-12-14 20:03, Dennis Tune wrote:

> My take aways from my 1st 10m event...
> 
> My "Goal" was to complete WAS CW and Phone during this event...I needed 
> SD, NE, CT and ID on CW and DE for Phone.  I got the majority of the 
> states on 20m & 40m during the two Sweepstakes events earlier in the 
> fall, but still had a few hanging...
> 
> Spent Friday and Saturday over at the White River and worked some 
> stations CW remote...Was able to take advantage 10m being good well 
> past dark for NA stations and got my needed states on CW several times 
> each except for NE...
> 
> Came home Sunday and worked hard for 2 hours to find a DE station on 
> phone - No Luck...(I had 4 DE's during SSB Sweepstakes so I thought for 
> sure someone would be up)...
> 
> I spent the rest of the time bouncing back and forth from Phone to CW 
> and finally found a NE station late Sunday...
> 
> It was fun and I wish I had been able to have more seat time and post a 
> better score...
> 
> So far, the only confirmation is the one NE on CW...
> 
> Gotta say, I'm a little disappointed in the number of US stations that 
> take part in these contests and DON'T upload to LoTW...This week, I 
> went back thru my logs from the two Sweepstakes events and only around 
> 60% have been confirmed so far on LoTW and those contests were almost a 
> month ago.  Now I realize that my lack of skills in CW probably leads 
> to more than my share of callsign busts, but the way I do S&P on CW is 
> I will listen to the station running for several calls to make darn 
> sure I am decoding his callsign right before I try and call...The 
> interesting part is that about 50% of my foreign contacts from 10m have 
> already confirmed in just 3 days...Frustrating to say the least...
> 
> On a good side note, my late nights watching 80m can slow down as I 
> FINALLY got Hawaii to show up last week to complete my 5-Band WAS 
> mixed...and he confirmed immediately ...
> 
> Now back to work on DX...
> 
> 73's
> 
> Dennis Tune W9DCT
> 
> On Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 07:59:36 PM CST, Nick Kennedy 
> <kennnick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It was nice to have a good opening coincide with the contest. When I 
> saw the post from Joel saying the band was already open to EU at 8:00 
> AM local, I jumped in.  That was nice - like 1980 coming back.  Well, 
> not quite but getting there.
> 
> Also, in my 55+ years of ham radio before moving up to NWA I never got 
> around to putting in for a plain WAS, much less 5BWAS.  And after 
> moving, I found that I'd been reset to zero.  So that make me want to 
> chase band-states a bit. I'm looking OK except for 15 and especially 
> 10, which I rarely get on.  So it was nice to get some states. 
> Sometimes the close-in ones are tough on ten so I was glad to get 
> border states OK, TN and LA.
> 
> Yesterday I got my first new entity in ages, on 15 CW: 3D2AG/P.  Trying 
> to figure out how to QSL. I gather he's using paper logs and wants 
> PayPal. Doesn't say how much. I presume I'd PayPal with a message 
> giving my call, time/date/frequency and mode?
> 
> 73,
> 
> Nick, WA5BDU
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 10:19 AM J. Setcer <j.setcer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> NICE CAR. Maine was the last state for 10 meter W.A.S. MS was the other 
> one I just recently got.
> I added one toward ten meter DXCC. I still need six. I'll get two of 
> those next month When Bouvet & Crozet operate on 10 meters.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 3:19 AM Lanny Aldrich <k1lec at hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Jon:
> 
> Which was the last state for 10M WAS?  I loved having that last state 
> for WAS honor in Vermont!
> 
> QSL 1983 Avanti I bought in 1984: the year I met Joel who was on a job 
> at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
> 
> I had a casual contest operation on 10M SSB trying to get DXCC on that 
> band.  Worked 24 countries and of those which confirmed, I've added 
> only one band counter!  Hung up at 93 on 10M and 97 on 40M for the 
> moment toward 5BDXCC.
> 
> I heard from Didier, TX7G, that with along my 3Y0PI card from 1994 to 
> be Field Checked, my #331 QSL, Marquesas Island, has been mailed.  See 
> you soon Roger!
> 
> 73, Lanny  K1LEC
> 
> Sent from Mail [1] for Windows
> 
> From: J. Setcer
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2022 1:40 AM
> To: ADXA
> Subject: [ADXA] fun weekend on ten meters
> 
> Last time I uploaded a log it caused ADXA to go DOWN in the rankings.
> 
> Nonetheless, I'll keep uploading logs until someone tells me to stop.
> 
> ------
> 
> I watched old movies on TV & operated S&P during the commercials.
> 
> I needed one state for WAS on ten. My goal was that one state. I got 
> them twice.
> 
> Speaking of WAS, I wonder if Brazil has a WAS. I probably have all the 
> Brazil states.
> 
> I had a BLAST. I love this Hobby.
> 
> - QJ
> 
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