I try to make at least one needed DX or stateside contact every month. Some months are easier than others, mostly depending on how busy I am with other things. Recognizing that I hadn’t made any December QSOs yet, and figuring I should get them in the log while I had a chance, I turned on the radio and started listening around.
It didn’t take long to find a CW station on 15m in South Cook Island, a new band-point for me. I then went looking again, and found a booming station in the Turks and Caicos Islands on 17m SSB. I then popped down to 20m and found a RTTY station from Haiti and worked him. Without even knowing it, I had just worked a Triple Play (all three modes: CW/Voice/Digital).
This despite declining solar activity (at least absorption and geomagnetic activity is low)
