[OKDXA] Everyone congratulate Ilene, K5IH

[Gary McCrorey]

CONGRATULATIONS ILENE.
WQ5R
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Simpson" <rksimpson1 at cox.net>
To: "Oklahoma - DX news and information" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Everyone congratulate Ilene, K5IH


>
>
> -----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
>
> ===============
> 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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