February is the shortest month. Would a short month also mean fewer incoming QSL cards to report?
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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.
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I’m impartial to QSL cards with maps. This card from FK8HA has one and confirms our QSO on FT8 on 15M. The contact was made from my modest home station.
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This card confirms my FT8 QSO on 17M with JD1BMH on the Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Though part of Japan, it’s so far away that it counts as a separate DXCC entity.
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I worked A71AM in Qatar on 20M SSB for another All Time New One (ATNO). Qatar is in the Persian Gulf.
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I’ve worked Svalbard years ago but neglected to get a QSL card and since then that operator had become a SK. For this 20M SSB contact in 2021 I did not waste much time in getting JW0W to confirm. Svalbard is a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean and is one of the most northerly inhabited areas in the world.