[ADXA] BIC progress at the halfway point

[Dennis Schaefer]

When I set up the BIC (Butt in Chair) challenge for myself, I made a chart
for 50 days.  This is the 25th day.  I have worked a new band counter every
day so far.  Some of them are duplicates because they haven't confirmed
yet, but most days, I get at least 3 to add to the list.  The DXpeditions
help a lot, and I think I have probably gotten at least 20 new band
counters from those.

I took down the low dipole that ran over the house.  I'm too old to climb
on the roof, and doing anything with it caused it to get caught in the
shingles.  That forced me to do something for 80 and this morning, I wired
up the south guy wire as a sloping vertical for 80.  It has two elevated
radials and I've got it matched pretty well.  It will be interesting to see
if I can work W8S with it, and possibly TO8FH.

30 meters is a problem, still, because I used the 80M dipole on that band
and it is gone.  I worked a couple on the 40M dipole, but plan to put
something up for 30.

I have done well with ZD9W on digital modes, but no CW yet!   4 CW contacts
with TO8FH, and 4 CW with W8S.

Can I keep this up for 25 more days?  Probably, with all the DXpeditions.

As WA6AUD would say, "DX IS!"  (I knew Hugh - used to talk to him quite
often from Japan.)

73,
Dennis/RZ
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