This spring I ended the 160M season with
101 Worked and 96 confirmed.� I finally managed to round up
the cards for 100. �Same sort of thing happened on 6M. I had
started the year with 76 confirmed and was on at the right
time to catch a couple of really nice openings to EU. ��I got
to 101 worked and finally got LOTW and QSLs to make the DXCC
threshold. . Djuro, 4O6AH, sent a reply QSL twice but I never
received it.� I lucked out and caught 4O3A one morning and got
LOTW in hours. �FS/W8HC was the one that got me to 100. I made
my first 6M QSO in January 2012.� I worked a couple of XEs on
CW and thought that was very cool.� One afternoon I saw Bob,
ZL1RS, spotted and just for grins tuned to his CW freq.� I was
amazed when I heard him and shocked when he came back to me.�
I was running a IC7000, 100W to a 3L M2 yagi at about 16ft.� I
was hooked on 6M from that point on. �I started the winter
with about 35 confirmed on 160.� All CW/SSB.� Most of the
�new� entities were FT8�a few CW Qs into EU on good nights.
��Thanks to Earl, N5ZM, for taking time out of his busy
schedule to check my cards. It was great getting to talk to
someone about DX in person!� Earl�s station and antenna farm
are looking/performing great.
�
So, by the skin of my teeth I now have DXCC
on 10 bands.� It took me about 40 years to make Mixed DXCC.�
Never thought 5B DXCC was possible. ��Also, thanks to the
really sweet 2M Sporadic E opening on the Sunday of Field Day,
I worked three new states (NY, CT and DE), two new Canadian
Provinces and 18 new grids on 2M FT8/SSB over about a three
hour opening.� I got enough LOTW hits to apply for VUCC on
2M.� I have enough cards to get to about 135 now. ��It�s all
fun!
�
Congrats to Rory, K5CKS, on reaching the
425 level on 6M VUCC.� I�m hoping that K5UR guy is legitimate
�..he signed my two new DXCC certificates also!
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73 es DX,
Pat, W5VY