With such a small, humble home station, how can I manage to work much DX? Time and location diversity! I’ve been licensed since 1985. So I’ve seen more than one solar cycle and made the most of them (mostly) to work DX.
I also utilize remote stations where needed to work a new one. Although I would prefer to work everything from my home QTH, I have to be realistic. I would NEVER have broken through to Bouvet Island from home. My general philosophy is work them however possible first. I can try from home later.
Nevertheless, I still have managed to work enough countries from home alone to obtain DXCC.
It had been a quiet couple of months of incoming QSL cards. But a couple of QSL Bureau envelopes came in with some interesting cards including one for a brand new country. I worked TO4A on the island of Martinique on 10M, 15M and 20M using CW during the ARRL DX Contest. All contacts were […]
Here are few QSL Cards from contacts made with “countries” that no longer exist (deleted DXCC entities). It’s not as though they were erased from the map. Rather, they no longer count for a separate DXCC credit as they once did. The Abu Ail lighthouse in the Red Sea had been under French or British […]
Here are some of the more interesting QSL Cards that I’ve received in my Inbox over the last couple of months through November 2024. I’ve only worked two Andorran stations the entire time I’ve been licensed. So I was happy to receive this QSL Card from C31CA for a contact on 20M using FT8. This […]
Here are some of the more interesting QSL Cards I’ve received over the last couple of months leading into August 2024. I also received a nice card for 7P8EI in Lesotho from CW and SSB contacts 17M and 15M respectively. Strangely though, my scanner would not scan the card without a weird anomaly showing up […]
Things have really picked up, QSL-wise in April. On April 19th I received a shipment of 94 QSL Cards from the Incoming QSL Bureau! I had inadvertently allowed my envelope count to drop to zero and the cards started to pile up. Sorting through those and updating my logbook kept me busy for some time […]
