[Hallicrafters] How Many Verified Countries Do You Have?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

As a matter of curiosity, and perhaps bragging rights too, how many 
verified/confirmed entities do you have?

Some of us send our QSL cards into the ARRL, or where ever, to get a nice 
certificate as proof of our DXing efforts. Others do not. It is probably a 
lot less work to just design and print your own certificate! (LOL!)

So come on and tell us just how many entities/countries that you have worked 
and been able to verify. We might have some super DX'ers hiding in the 
shadows!

Remember! W5WP has a link on the HHI/Hallicrafters web site that offers a 
very nice certificate for anyone who works/confirms 100 countries using 
"vintage gear".

There is also a very cool, and colorful, certificate available for those who 
have verified 25, 50, 75 or more SW stations. Since the SW stations seem to 
be continually vanishing forever, confirming a hundred is a real challenge!

I still shake my head in amused amazement when I recall that Sunday when I 
unknowingly worked forty-nine states, on the same frequency, in a ninety 
minute time period! I only realized what had happened later that day when I 
wrote up the Net report. I did not work North Dakota. If I had known it at 
the time, I would have used the landline and called one of the Hams I know 
in ND and had him get on the air so I could work him. Can you imagine 
working fifty states in ninety minutes the same day? Even given the band 
conditions we had then, I seriously doubt if I could ever again work 
forty-nine states on the same frequency, in ninety minutes on the same day. 
Especially when I was not trying to do so to begin with!

So come on and tell us about your DXing victories or surprises. You might 
also tell us about your contact surprises. I am sure all of you have had 
some. Go for it!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net