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.
The last couple of months have been very good to me. Each of the QSL cards below represent an All Time New One (ATNO) or DXCC countries I had never worked and confirmed before. I’d worked 2 Papua New Guinea stations in the 1990s, both during the IARU HF Championship. But I never found the […]
It was a busy month, QSL card-wise. I received two separate packets from the incoming QSL card bureau. Many of those were Japanese cards, with several of them being new JCC and JCG entities that I needed for those awards. Here are a few other cards coming in this month of note. Guadalupe is not […]
Here are a few of the more interesting QSL cards I received in the last month. I’ve worked a ton of US Virgin Island stations on the air over the years. But I’ve heard very few British Virgin Island stations for some reason and never managed to work one. The VP2V/N2EIN DXpedition there took care […]
Here are some of the more interesting QSL cards I received in the month of May 2022. This is a nice, hard to get, DXCC country. Mount Athos is in Greece, but it counts as a separate country for award purposes due to its isolation and autonomy. I worked Monk Iakovos (SV2RSG/A) on both 20M […]
Here’s a sampling of interesting QSL cards that I received during the month of March in 2022. Another All Time New One (ATNO) for me. I worked EA6VQ in the Balearic Islands on both 40M and 30M using FT8. The islands are in the Mediterranean Sea and reside far enough away from Spain to count […]
February is the shortest month. Would a short month also mean fewer incoming QSL cards to report? I worked CQ8M on the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean on 40M SSB. The QSO was made from a remote station in New York. I’m impartial to QSL cards with maps. This card from FK8HA has one […]
