As a follow-up to my previous post, 100 DXCC entities in 33 days, I finally confirmed my 100th country on 17m!
Friday, April 23, 2021
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
6M is back! South America TEP
I logged onto the ON4KST chat page today and saw the New England guys talking about South America, I turned the rig on and started to decode some big DX!
Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come!
-Steve
N1JFU
Monday, April 5, 2021
100 DXCC entities in 33 days on 17m
my 100th DXCC entity
As a follow-up to my last blog post, I've been having a great time working 17m FT8. I'm lucky in that I work from home, so when I'm stuck on a boring conference call, I can also be working DX! In a mere 33 days I've been able to work 100 DXCC entities! I fully take advantage of the color coding system of WSJT-X, that way I can just look for the hot pink to grab new entities, beige for the new CQ zones.
Getting QSL cards from all 100 will be a different story, so I probably won't have a DXCC award for a number of months, but not bad! To date, I have 82 confirmed....
Some Highlights:
- V5 (Namibia), 9G (Ghana) - both are tough directions for my antenna
- A9 (Bharain), A4 (Oman) - Longer paths, I don't normally hear that well, both below the noise
- VK, ZL, JA - Taking advantage of Grayline prop. They come in for a short window most days
Misses:
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DXCC QSO Conf. CALLSIGN DATE TIME
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TF (Iceland) 3 2 TF5B 01/01/2021 14:16
HA, HG (Hungary) 3 2 HA1RB 01/01/2021 14:18
YT-YU, YZ (Serbia) 1 1 YU3A 01/01/2021 14:21
YO-YR (Romania) 6 4 YO3JR 01/01/2021 14:27
SV-SZ (Greece) 6 5 SV3SPD 01/01/2021 14:28
I (Italy) 9 6 IZ8PPI 01/01/2021 14:29
9Y-9Z (Trinidad & Tobago) 1 1 9Y4DG 01/01/2021 14:56
9H (Malta) 2 0 9H1ET 01/01/2021 14:58
HC-HD (Ecuador) 6 5 HC1BI 01/01/2021 15:00
EA-EH (Spain) 17 10 EC7R 01/01/2021 15:02
F (France) 14 9 F5ADE 01/01/2021 15:08
G, GX (England) 6 6 M0ORD 01/01/2021 15:28
TI, TE (Costa Rica) 2 0 TI2VVV 01/01/2021 15:33
GM, GS (Scotland) 2 0 GM6DX 01/01/2021 15:37
CT (Portugal) 5 4 CT2JBG 01/01/2021 15:39
J7 (Dominica) 4 2 J73ESL 01/01/2021 15:41
HJ-HK (Colombia) 8 5 HK3X 01/01/2021 15:48
GI, GN (Northern Ireland) 4 3 2I0IOI 01/01/2021 15:57
GW, GC (Wales) 1 0 MW0CSO 01/01/2021 16:34
ZR-ZU (South Africa) 2 2 ZS4JAN 01/01/2021 17:37
V5 (Namibia) 1 0 V51WH 01/01/2021 20:19
GJ, GH (Jersey) 1 1 GJ0KYZ 02/01/2021 15:08
VP2E (Anguilla) 1 1 VP2ETE 02/01/2021 15:10
EI-EJ (Ireland) 5 4 EI4GNB 02/01/2021 15:17
HB (Switzerland) 4 3 HB9ACA 02/01/2021 15:18
EA6-EH6 (Balearic Is.) 3 3 EA6SX 02/01/2021 15:21
PA-PI (Netherlands) 5 4 PF7DKW 02/01/2021 15:38
ON-OT (Belgium) 4 1 ON8BB 02/01/2021 15:39
V3 (Belize) 2 2 V31MA 02/01/2021 15:45
CM, CO (Cuba) 10 5 CO7MTL 02/01/2021 16:55
PP-PY (Brazil) 7 5 PY2IQ 02/01/2021 17:01
K,W,N, AA-AK (United States of A) 104 81 W5SUM 02/01/2021 17:47
LO-LW (Argentina) 3 3 LU1YT 03/01/2021 15:55
P4 (Aruba) 1 1 P41E 04/01/2021 15:55
C6 (Bahamas) 1 0 C6AVD 04/01/2021 16:23
CV-CX (Uruguay) 4 3 CX2AQ 04/01/2021 20:16
VE, VO, VY (Canada) 8 8 VY1MB 04/01/2021 20:19
CA-CE (Chile) 3 1 CE3BT 04/01/2021 20:40
KH6 (Hawaii) 2 2 K2GT 04/01/2021 21:52
LA-LN (Norway) 3 2 LA1PHA 05/01/2021 14:22
EA8-EH8 (Canary Is.) 4 3 EC8AXS 05/01/2021 15:51
SA-SM (Sweden) 4 3 SM6MUY 05/01/2021 17:01
CU (Azores) 3 2 CU7AA 05/01/2021 17:15
DA-DL (Fed. Rep. of Germa) 12 5 DK7ZT 05/01/2021 17:16
UA-UI1,3,4,6, (European Russia) 11 5 RZ1OA 05/01/2021 18:39
ZF (Cayman Is.) 1 0 ZF1PB 05/01/2021 18:54
KP2 (Virgin Is.) 3 2 KP2B 05/01/2021 20:36
OX (Greenland) 1 1 XP3A 05/01/2021 20:40
LZ (Bulgaria) 3 0 LZ2RR 06/01/2021 14:35
Z3 (North Macedonia) 1 1 Z36W 06/01/2021 14:38
9A (Croatia) 3 2 9A2GB 06/01/2021 14:40
OK-OL (Czech Republic) 6 5 OK1DOY 06/01/2021 14:42
LX (Luxembourg) 2 0 LX1DA 06/01/2021 15:33
SN-SR (Poland) 5 1 SP9MGJ 06/01/2021 15:34
OE (Austria) 4 2 OE3FVU 06/01/2021 15:45
S5 (Slovenia) 2 0 S56GD 06/01/2021 16:14
FG (Guadeloupe) 1 1 FG5GH 06/01/2021 18:23
ZP (Paraguay) 2 1 ZP5DNB 06/01/2021 18:40
PZ (Suriname) 1 0 PZ5RA 07/01/2021 14:47
HO-HP (Panama) 4 3 HP1CDW 07/01/2021 19:50