We did a family vacation at a beach house this week at Dauphin Island and I took a radio and did some very casual  "holiday operating".  I used a Yaesu FT-991A and 17 foot telescoping whip antenna with 3 radials with maximum power of 50 watts.  No tuner.  Just manually adjusted antenna for best SWR.  QSO's were all FT8/FT4 although I tried some CW.  I didn't bring headphones and was getting complaints about the "noise".  There were some good CW signals on 20.  I ended up with 63 different entities.  Lot of fun!

EJ  K5EJ   

Here is a list of DX entities worked:


  1. Belize
  2. USA
  3. Canada
  4. Panama
  5. Russia Asia
  6. Kuwait
  7. San Marino
  8. Spain
  9. Algeria
  10. Brazil
  11. Chile
  12. Russia EU
  13. Costa Rica
  14. Barbados
  15. Qatar
  16. Italy
  17. Bulgaria
  18. France
  19. Dominican Republic
  20. Japan
  21. Australia
  22. US Virgin Islands
  23. Cuba
  24. Nicaragua
  25. Mexico
  26. Slovenia
  27. Hawaii
  28. Switzerland
  29. Germany
  30. Wales
  31. England
  32. Belgium
  33. Netherlands
  34. Puerto Rico
  35. Ecuador
  36. Argentina
  37. Cyprus
  38. Portugal
  39. Poland
  40. Hungary
  41. Finland
  42. Oman
  43. Romania
  44. Armenia
  45. Israel
  46. Greece
  47. Madeira Islands
  48. Moldova
  49. Azores
  50. Alaska
  51. Uruguay
  52. Trinidad Tobago
  53. Sardinia
  54. Guadeloupe
  55. Estonia
  56. Ukraine
  57. New Zealand
  58. St Vincent
  59. Jersey
  60. Columbia
  61. Balearic Islands
  62. Venezuela
  63. Lebanon