[ADXA] BIC Challenge complete!

[Nick Kennedy]

Way to go, Dennis!  I've been trying to pick up the pace a little bit, not
up to that level but I have worked two or three new entities in the last
month or two after a long drought.

The BIC thing reminded me that I'd read something a few months ago on that
subject and I finally found it in my Kindle "clippings" from the book about
Oppenheimer. We might have known there would be a German word for it:

“But after 1950, he never published another scientific paper. “He didn’t
have Sitzfleisch,” said Murray Gell-Mann, a visiting physicist at the
Institute in 1951. “Perseverance, the Germans call it Sitzfleisch, ‘sitting
flesh,’ when you sit on a chair.”

So now you can be fancy and say Sitzfleisch when you mean BIC.

73

Nick, WA5BDU




On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 2:54 PM <w5znjoel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congrats Dennis !!!!!! Your “self-challenge” should be encouragement for
> everyone to undertake and I have enjoyed reading your posts on your
> progress!
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> Maybe we need an ADXA “Butt in the Chair” Award !!!!!!!  😊
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> 73 Joel W5ZN
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> *From:* adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> *On
> Behalf Of *Dennis Schaefer
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 7, 2023 2:34 PM
> *To:* ADXA <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* [ADXA] BIC Challenge complete!
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> I was in a DX'ing slump and determined that my problem was that I was not
> sitting down and turning the rig on.  I decided I would place my Butt In
> the Chair and work at least one new band counter every day for 50 days
> straight.  I made a chart and started filling it in.
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> A new band counter could be one I had worked before but not verified.
> With my low Challenge score of around 1200, finding new ones was usually
> not difficult.  On some days, I only worked one, but it was more typical to
> work 3 or 4, maybe more when DXPeditions were active.
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> A couple of days were challenging.  My wife had a virus and got severly
> dehydrated, so I spent most of a day at the hospital with her.  I got on 30
> meters before leaving the house, and worked a 4S7.  I also worked a JA,
> which I had never confirmed on 30.  Another day, I had to go to LR and get
> a test to see if I had lung cancer.  I had to stay overnight, so I got up
> early and worked FG4AO on 30 meters.  Fortunately, the spot on my lung
> picked up by two CT scans was "nothing" according to the doctor who stuck
> the tube down my throat.
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> 11/7 was the 50th day, and I worked F8JIR on 30M to make it 50 in a row.
> I'll probably add a couple from expeditions before the day is over.
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> I have no idea how many new ones I picked up, because I had decided the
> hard and fast goal was to work a new unconfirmed band counter each day.
> The Lotw verifications will fall where they may.  If I have to keep working
> JA's and F's on 30 meters until one matches on Lotw, so be it. I'll
> eventually QSL direct to some of the better ones that don't use Lotw or
> OQRS.  The DXPeditions and OQRS are lifesavers, though.  I have hopes of
> making it to 1300 by the end of the year.
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> Looking forward to seeing everyone at the meeting!
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> 73,
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> Dennis, W5RZ
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> (I'll never be a DX Hog, but maybe a DX piglet!)
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