[ADXA] Challenge challenges

[Rory Bowers]

Thank You San... Actually feeling like getting back in the chair today.  It
figures that the TY0 is active 14095 F/H in the middle of an Active Solar
Storm... just my luck, but I am in there watching anyway.  Starting to get
my strength back from the last stay and heading into the next "big one" for
the transplant on the 25th.  Only 3 weeks this time.  That last one at 40
days was a killer!  I badly need Benin and will likely be out here
regularly this weekend and into next week.  Thanks for the FB good wishes
San!
73,
Rory, K5CKS

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 2:50 PM Sandy Hutson <k5yy1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Rory…
>
>   Hope you are slowly getting better. We all think about you and your
> recovery time. Life goes on and you will be back in the chase, albeit
> slowly at first. It’s just a hobby… right? Bless and 73, 😊
>
> San YY
>
>
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> *From: *Rory Bowers <k6cks01 at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Friday, October 14, 2022 1:37 PM
> *To: *Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [ADXA] Challenge challenges
>
>
>
> 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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