[ADXA] BIC, DX'er Don't Sleep, & Blind Hogs & Acorns

[w5znjoel at gmail.com]

The day continues to be grand. 9M6NA just confirmed this morning's 160-meter
contact in LoTW plus I also received my 7Q6M 6 meter confirmation as well.
Time for a celebration drink!

 

73 Joel W5ZN 

 

From: w5znjoel at gmail.com <w5znjoel at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 7:12 AM
To: 'ADXA List' <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: BIC, DX'er Don't Sleep, & Blind Hogs & Acorns

 

Greetings ADXA Folks,

 

I trust your fall/winter DX season is going well. From the posts on our
reflector, it appears a lot of new ones are filling up the logs!

 

DX'ing, even with FT8, is not for the faint hearted. You MUST be on when the
DX is on regardless of the time of day or night.

 

I really enjoyed reading Dennis, W5RZ, posts on his "Butt in the Chair"
(BIC) pursuit to beef up his DXCC Challenge totals and after the past few
days it reminded me (and gave me some great encouragement) that DX'ers don't
sleep!! I arrived back from Serbia a couple of days before our conference,
then left right after on Sunday for a round of business meetings in Houston.
I arrived back home last Thursday evening but had no time to sleep as I
needed 4W and H44 on 160. I was able to work them and thought I could now
get some rest, especially since I leave for Dubai next week. But that is NOT
to be as there is DX on the bands that I need !!!!! I need XW on 160 so I've
been in the shack at 4 AM for the sunset (SS) but to further intrude on
sleep I've been running with 4W on 6-meter EME and for now our common moon
is around midnight. That doesn't leave much sleep time !!!

 

So this morning after sacking in a 1:00 AM I dragged myself out at 4 AM
hoping XW would show up on 160 (they've been showing up after NA sunrise
"SR" the past couple of days). While waiting, and hoping, XW would show up
low and behold there is 9M6NA and we worked !!!!!!! I had worked 9M2 years
ago on 160 but 9M6 has been elusive. Saty has a station he has built on the
coast away from a lot of the noise sources in East Malaysia so he hears
fairly well when condx are there. I'm still chasing XW on 160, but it's a
happy morning today as the blind hog found an acorn and the loss of sleep no
longer matters (but coffee, preferably expresso, does). 9M6 puts me at 289
on 160 so if I can nab XW, or 7O, I'll hit the magic 290 on my pursuit to
300 on 160!

 

Dennis RZ - Many tnx for the posts and encouragement and ADXA folks
remember: DX'ers DON'T SLEEP, SO GET IN THERE AND WORK 'EM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

73 Joel W5ZN

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