[OKDXA] Everyone congratulate Ilene, K5IH

[Kim Elmore]

Simply amazing! I can't even imagine what that must feel like, not to mention the countless hours of dogged determination and careful, considered strategy. Congratulations, indeed, Ilene!

73,

Kim N5OP

"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith

On Nov 27, 2013, at 17:14, "Roger Simpson" <rksimpson1 at cox.net> wrote:

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> 
> -----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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