[OKDXA] 12 Band WAS

[John Geiger]

That is amazing Jeff.  I didn't realize you were that into 2m SSB and EME.
I have WAS on 160-6m including 60 meters but only 40 states on 2m.

73 John AF5CC

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 2:13 PM Roger Simpson <rksimpson1 at cox.net> wrote:

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> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Jeff Martin" <jeffmartin at valornet.com>
> To: "'Oklahoma DX Association'" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: 10/23/2020 20:37:35
> Subject: [OKDXA] 12 Band WAS
>
> >   Since there hasn't been a lot of new DX to work, a few months ago I
> >started looking at LoTW to see what states I needed on all the bands for
> >WAS. This evening I worked K7VIC in Montana on 12 meters to complete WAS
> on
> >12 bands, 160, 80, 60, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12, 10, 6, and 2 meters. Guess
> >I'll have to come up with another goal now... hi...
> >
> >73,
> >Jeff - K5WE
> >
> >
> >
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> Jeff:
> Working WAS on every band 160 meters thru 2 meters is absolutely mind
> blowing! I thought that the Triple Play award for QSLing each state once
> per each mode [CW, Phone, Digital] was a difficult task. There are
> "only" about 2,000 Triple Play awards out there. I noticed Coy N5OK got
> his Triple Play award a about a month ago.
>
> But to get WAS on all bands must be exceedingly rare. I wonder how many
> people, besides you, have WAS on all bands --- 160m to 2m?
>
> I decided to spend some of my Covid "lockdown" time by working on DXCC
> awards on various bands. I've had DXCC awards for 40m, 20m, 17m, 15m,
> and 12m for a few years.  In the last month I added single band  DXCC
> awards for 80m and 30m. I'm still working on the 10m DXCC award.
>
> I still need DPRK, Bouvet, Pratas, Johnston Island, Crozet, Kerguelen,
> San Felix & Ambrosio, and Turkmenistan to have worked all DXCC entities.
> I've heard rumors about a possible effort to activate Bouvet after the
> two aborted attempts. But I am not aware of any possibility that the
> other entities I need are likely to be activated.  But at least I worked
> Scarborough and Peter I which are considered fairly "rare".
>
> 73   Roger   K5RKS
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