With the arrival of a LotW confirmation from 3C7A (Equatorial Guinea), my LotW count reached 246. I have 4 QSLs in hand from S01WS (Western Sahara), E40VB (Palestine), DV1UD (Philippines), and XW3DT (Laos). That will put me at the 250 mark and the next DXCC endorsement. I’m making plans to travel to the ARRL to have the cards checked into the system soon.
That will also bring my DXCC Challenge to 1184, and add the final confirmation required for Hawaii to complete 30-meter WAS.
Did you work heard Island a little bit ago using your station or a remote station? Hard to believe you had propagation in full daylight on 80M to heard island. If you used a remote, which one did you use?
Hi Terry,
Hi Terry, Despite the 4-call, I live up in New England in Rhode Island. I worked VK0EK about 8 minutes before local sundown, so grey line propagation. Probably helps that there is a wicked cold front in our area too. I’m hearing him about S-4, with a noise level of about S-2. Not using a remote station, just my home station with 500 watts feeding a 450 foot circumference loop up about 25 feet. I can’t profess to anything special, all the hard work was done on the VK0EK end, not mine. But I do listen to instructions and he had just said to call 1 down, which is exactly what I did. 73, Bob, WB4SON
Congrats. I worked them on 30m between thunderstorms. Will try for 80 tonight.
And congrats on your 30m QSO. I haven’t been hearing them well at all on that band — fantastic strong signals on 40 meter CW, but I haven’t made it through the pileup on that band yet. 73, Bob