Category: DX
August 10, 2026
Received my QSL card from J51A off the coast of Africa. This was a really well run DXpedition. Challenging but not impossible and they knew how to run multichannel FT8. The opposite of another DX during the same timeframe. I got 10 Q's with them including 80m.
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February 17, 2026
Received the ARRL DX Trident award in the mail. This is for getting 100 confirmed DX entities on Phone, CW and Digital.
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October 29, 2025
DX trip to the island on Montserrat in the Caribbean for CW WW SSB contest
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December 31, 2022
I did a lot of stuff with the radio club this year, I wrote a Year in Review about it on the club webpage. My big radio things this year were going to the FCG Contest Dinner at Hamcation, usually it's on the same day as the club meeting. I got to meet quite a few people I knew from on the air and…
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May 31, 2021
SX9V in Crete confirm our QSO from CQ WPX CW giving my 100th DXCC entity in LOTW, completing my 3 way digtial/voice/CW DXCC. Time to order the certificate.
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April 15, 2020
Brief update: I've mostly been practicing CW during this stay-at-home order. We did the club meeting via 2m this month, that went ok. The weather's been really nice, it's a shame all the state parks are closed. Yesterday my cheapo web hosting server crashed and that was the last straw with them so…
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February 18, 2020
Got a new QSL card from the VP6R DXpedition. I made so many contacts with them it required 2 cards. First time that's happened. Pitcairn Island location
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October 28, 2019
I spent some more time on this contest than last year and had much better results. All sorts of DX. Map of contacts - CW WW SSB 2019 I had quite a few contacts on 15m which is new to me, usually it's pretty dead. I had my typical troubles on 40 and almost none on 80m due to the low height of my off…
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October 25, 2019
For the past couple months things have been pretty slow in the QSO department. I made a few contacts here and there but not much new was happening. I think summer is a slow time for ham radio, which is unfortunate since I'm in Florida and it's too hot to go outside a lot of the time. Anyhow, last…
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May 18, 2019
I typically go to a music festival on this weekend of the year. Last year at that festival I realized I didn't know anyone there anymore and I used to know everyone, so I decided then that I would do Dayton this year. Dayton totally has the music festival vibe only everyone is carrying walkie…
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