Category Archives: LotW

W1AW/Portable 50 States Confirmed!

Posted on September 4, 2014 by robert

I was a bit surprised to find two QSLs arrived this morning at about 5 AM in LotW confirming contacts with W1AW/1 from Maine.  This was the final state that I need for WAS W1AW/Portable. Oddly enough, despite the LotW confirmation, … Continue reading →

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Six Band WAS?

Posted on August 11, 2014 by robert

I have been missing only Vermont for 17 Meter WAS, which would be WAS on 6 bands.  Today I finally heard Vermont in the form of W1AW/1 running CW.  Very hard copy and a great OP on the other end … Continue reading →

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Les, KL7J, Comes Through in a Big Way on 80 Meters

Posted on January 26, 2014 by robert

My journey to 5BWAS ended at 1050 UTC (5:50 AM Local Time) Jan 26, 2014, when Les Buchholz sent CQ on 3.577.269 MHz.  Six minutes later, signal levels of -14 and -16 were exchanged and confirmed, and 73 send round … Continue reading →

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Triple Play #936 Completed

Posted on November 26, 2013 by robert

The ARRL issued Triple Pay #936 to me today.  A fun factoid is that a good ham radio friend of mine, Dave, WB4KDI, was issued his just a  day earlier.  I sort of goofed up in the submission process, asking … Continue reading →

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Just Completed a Triple Play!

Posted on November 21, 2013 by robert

After coming to the realization that I wasn’t going to get my final necessary WAS Phone contact in LotW, a requirement of the ARRL Triple Play award (that it be in LotW), I was stumped, but reached out to a … Continue reading →

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And the countdown begins…

Posted on November 17, 2013 by robert

I spend much of the weekend participating in the Phone SS contest.  Unlike last year, when my goal was a clean sweep on both CW and Phone, this year’s goal was to simply complete WAS Phone, which is the final … Continue reading →

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5K QSOs since Feb 2011

Posted on November 12, 2013 by robert

I noted that after I uploaded a couple of JT9 QSOs, that my LotW count reached exactly 5000 today: That’s a lot of yabbering for 2.5 years!

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Happy Standard Time Day

Posted on November 3, 2013 by robert

Perhaps as a consolation prize on the day that we fall back to Standard Time and lose an hour of light at night, a LotW confirmation arrived for a Samoa QSO.  This makes for the following: DXCC:  40/20/15/10, with 25 … Continue reading →

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Just over 3 months to go for this year’s goals

Posted on September 18, 2013 by robert

As of 9/18, I have 735 Challenge points (out of 1000), 187 Countries Confirmed, need 4 countries for 10m DXCC and 26 for 80m DXCC.  So some decent progress has been made toward the year-end goal of 200 Confirmed Countries, … Continue reading →

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Egypt in the nick of time

Posted on July 15, 2013 by robert

So I’ve worked several different Egypt stations in the past couple of years, but none have participated in LotW.  That changed when I got confirmation for a SSB QSO with SU1HZ on May 5th. That brings my confirmed total to … Continue reading →

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