[ADXA] Best way to know what’s new (?) and general update/ramblings at K5GO

[J. Setcer]

I already know I'm not qualified to even comment on this... But that has
never stopped me before...

I love LOTW. but when I check to see if "IT" is a new one, LOTW credit
Matrix only shows me entities that I have "paid" to get DXCC credit for.
They don't show in the "Award Credit Matrix" until I have PAID LOTW to
issue me credit.
That kinda' sucks.
- N5QJ, (running with the big dogs, even if I pee like a puppy.)

On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 9:29 PM Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Curious to know how you guys know when a country is a new one on a
> particular band.  I use N1MM for logging and have LOTW.
>
> I went into LOTW and downloaded an ADIF file for QSLs received through
> LOTW and then imported it into N1MM.  I’m not sure what it does with
> duplicates.  Those may be the reason LOTW shows 132,000 QSL records but
> N1MM only has 71,000 QSOs after I imported the file?
>
> I have not researched how Club Log can be used to provide benefit?
>
> The last time I might have had significant files to load into LOTW for
> K5GO QSOs may have been about 10-12 years ago.  I don’t know where my paper
> logs are and doubt that I would ever take the time to make those digital
> but maybe someday if I ever run across those logbooks I could just go
> through them and enter the good ones or ones that would be new ones on one
> band or another.
>
> I have a radio set up at my home in Siloam Springs and am thinking about
> building a duo band 17/12 Yagi and putting up a dipole for 30 meters.
> Having zero QSOs on any of those bands, it would provide some entertainment
> since almost everything would be  new for some period of time.
>
> First things first, though.  My next project is to shunt feed my tower for
> 160 and 80 meters.  I have antennas for 40, 20, 15, 10, 6.
>
> Living in town with line noise and no room for decent receive antennas
> isn’t ideal but I’m having some fun with it anyway.
>
> At one time I had a beacon running at ZF9CW.  I brought the rig (Radio
> Shack HTX-100) home last time I was there and am going to put it on 28299.5
> sometime soon.  If it wipes 10m out I’ll try to find another location to
> put it on.
>
> I really enjoy looking at the spots from the Skimmer I set up at ZF9CW.  I
> have about a 15 foot piece of aluminum tubing for an antenna with 350 feet
> of RG6.  The NCDXF ranks all the Skimmer stations according to how many of
> their beacons were spotted each day and how many total beacon spots. I’m
> almost always in the top five.  #1 on todays report.
>
>
>
> I’m planning to work the WPX contest next month or at least start with
> intentions of finishing it.
>
> 73…Stan, K5GO
>
>
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