[OKDXA] Everyone congratulate Ilene, K5IH

[Roger Simpson]

-----Original Message----- 
From: W5LE
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 3:34 PM
To: Congratulations Ilene K5IH!
Subject: [OKDXA] Everyone congratulate Ilene, K5IH

Everyone,
Congratulations are in order for Ilene, K5IH.  She just worked VU7AG on
20M SSB at 2126 UTC.
That's an accomplishment in itself but what adds an extra element of
"awesomeness" to this is...
This was the last country Ilene needed to reach the Top of the Honor
Roll!!!!
Wow and double wow!  I think I'm almost as excited about it as she and
Jim, K5GZ, are!
73 and see you in the pileups.
Gene W5LE

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>From K5RKS        27 Nov 2013  at   2242UTC

Ilene K5IH:

Holy Toledo!! Congratulations on the reaching the top of the Honor Roll. I 
know I'll never even get close.

You are joining a number in the OKDXA who are up there in that rarefied 
atmosphere.

I also worked VU7AG this afternoon on 20 M SSB.  I worked him at 20:39UTC. 
He was xmitting on
14260.0 Khz and at the time I worked him he was listening up at 14275.1 Khz. 
I was embarrassed by the typo in my spot on the cluster because
I put in the wrong frequency for him. I was so hyper that I typed in his 
listening freq rather than his xmit freq and also put the decimal in the 
wrong place for his freq!!!

I don't know if I'll ever make it to the bottom, let alone the top, of the 
Honor Roll. Most, but not all, of the
entities I still need have not been on the air since when I moved here to 
Oklahoma in December 2005 and took up DXing
seriously.

According to scuttlebut, Pooyan, EP3PK was heard on yesterday. I 've 
attempted to setup skeds with him several times (since
according to Daily DX he is willing to setup skeds) but I've never heard 
back from him. I think I could work him if just heppened to hear him and the
pileup was only "moderate".

I ran into Monk Apollo that way. Just lucked out and worked him on RTTY even 
though he was not yet on any spotting network.

Bernie McClenny, W3UR, has a list of the status of the most recent 
activation of the top 20 rarest ones. I need about half of them. Namely, the 
half with the oldest "most recent activation" date.

I "worked" Turkmenistan but according to the DX desk the station "has no 
documentation". I believe that ham radio is now illegal in Turkmenistan so 
no wonder there was "no documentation".

Typical of the places I still need are: Howland, Pratas, Eritrea, Kingman, 
North Korea, Navassa, Bouvet, Crozet, South Sandwich, Baker/Holland, 
Amsterdam, Heard, Tromelin, South Sandwich, Kingman Reef, Juan De Nova.

All you at the OKDXA are really setting the bar so perseverance and 
tenacity. This is a lifetime pursuit and I'm just a tenderfoot.

73   Roger    K5RKS





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