[ADXA] Challenge challenges

[Rory Bowers]

Hi Dennis,
I appreciate that you are trying to "keep up" but going up against some of
the "Big Guns" in ADXA is a formidable task that i don't think I would
try.  The Big Guns have more years on the bands than I do and more
impressive contacts over the years than I can imagine.  So, I am perfectly
happy with my "personal best" and take pleasure in what I have accomplished
in the Challenge sitting currently at 1162.  Jay has called me a "Big Gun"
but I don't think so Hi Hi.  Because of recent illness I missed out on the
D60 and I am sure it set me back aways.  Keep up the good work and work um
when you can get um!
73,
Rory, K5CKS

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 12:24 PM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If it wasn’t for some local friends running up nice totals on the
> Challenge, I’d be perfectly content to ignore it.  However, noticing that
> my Challenge total was just 941 inspired me to at least try to break 1000.
> Then to catch up with my friends, I need to get up to 1300 or wherever they
> are at the time.
>
> I’ve gotten some good advice on keeping up with what I need, but at this
> point, I need so much that it’s, well…..challenging.
>
> I have been working DX since 1963 and I loaded all my logs into DXKeeper
> starting with 1987.  However, I think for  87 and 88, and maybe a couple of
> more years, I just put in the better ones and left out common DX.   I could
> upload more old contacts, but I’m not sure if the number of Lotw hits that
> far back would be worth it.
>
> The surprise is how many I have mixed DXCC credit for that don’t show band
> information.  These were QSL cards submitted decades ago.  I guess the way
> to get Challenge credit is to resubmit the QSL or get Lotw credit for
> another station.
>
> I pasted a DXCC list into Excel and will update it with what I have credit
> for and use that to try to fill in the blanks with old QSL cards and new
> contacts.  I think that will be easier than scrolling up and down on a
> computer screen while looking at DXCC records.   I know DXKeeper would
> probably give me real-time status on anything I hear IF I had uploaded
> everything to it.  So much is so long ago that I’ve just decided that’s not
> the way I’m going to do it.  It’s possible I could upload info to DXKeeper
> about which entities I have credit for even if those contacts aren’t all
> recorded in DXKeeper, but I haven’t found any way to do that yet.
>
> 73,
> Dennis, W5RZ
>
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