Category: DX

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.

March QSL Inbox

VP8LP QSL Card

March 2021 has been good to me, QSL-wise. I’ve had some trouble getting a Belarus QSL card for a while. So, I was happy when Sergey (EU1A) came through with this 40M SSB confirmation. The V31MA card here confirmed three FT8 contacts on three different bands. The more interesting for me is the 60M contact. […]

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CQ DX

CQ DX

When a station is calling “CQ DX” on the air, what do they mean? The obvious and easy answer is that they are looking for stations far away (at a “distance”) and outside of their country. So, if I hear K5PI in Texas calling CQ, which I am literally doing right now as I type […]

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QSL Inbox – December 2020

A15AW QSL Card

The last few weeks have been very good to me from a QSL standpoint. After holding off on QSLing earlier in the year due to COVID-19 related interruptions to international mail I dipped my toes back in the water and sent out a bunch of requests. Here are a few of the recent successes. The […]

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