"Dave Heil" wrote in message
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Bert Craig wrote:

I prefer 20 for hunting DX. The contacts seem to come mush easier...

Freudian, Bert?

Dave K8MN

Lol! Oops.

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Vy 73 de Bert
WA2SI
FISTS #9384
QRP ARCI #11782

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Bert Craig wrote:
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Hey Bert - How many states do you actually have confirmed so far?

Well, I just checked my QSL cards and I currently have 18 "in hand"
with Belarus, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Sweden expected in
the mail.

U.S. states confirmed for the WAS?

Oops agn! 49 states confirmed with the WY QSL card confirmed "in the mail"
per e-mail message.

I'm encouraged by the fact that theses were all casual
"contacts of opportunity" while hunting down the final few states
for WAS.

You're obviously well on your way. If you get yer watts up and pound
the two major DX contests on 40/20/15 I'm betting your dxcc will come
in less than a calendar year. Good luck with it.

Tnx es hpe c u ota.

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Vy 73 de Bert
WA2SI
FISTS #9384
QRP ARCI #11782

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message
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"Dee Flint" wrote in message
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"Dee Flint" wrote in message
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"Bert Craig" wrote in message
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Just finished up with K8BBM to put WY in the log and earn WAS QRP CW!

Next goal is WAC, then DXCC.

...and it all started with PA on 7031 on 9/10/03...courtesy of N2EY.
Tnx Jim. :-)

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Vy 73 de Bert
WA2SI
FISTS #9384
QRP ARCI #11782


Congratulations! and fine business. Perhaps we'll run across each
other in a contest someday.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE


If you contest then how come I ain't never worked ya? Or should I say,
which ones do you enter regular? I'll look for you.

Dan/W4NTI



I was wondering the same but it's just coincidence I guess. However, I'm
just a casual operator often stopping at a couple of dozen contacts.
Sometimes I and the OM use his callsign (K8BSG) instead of mine so he can
count some of the DX towards his DXCC instead of mine. He's a General
and I'm an Extra.


Hmmmm...K8BSG....I'll keep that in mind.


What contests do I work? Well I like Sweepstakes, State QSO parties, and
the DX contests.

Basically the same here. I love SS



If you are one of the very fast CW ops, I probably passed
you by.

Well I do admit I do slap the key a bit. But I do slow it down to 28 or
so when things slow down...hi.


For ragchewing, I'm only reliable at 15wpm although somehow I
managed to pass my 20. In contests, I can do 20 to 25 for the limited
exchange but generally have to listen several times through before trying
the station to be sure I have it right. So I stick to seek and pounce.


I do a lot of that, especially in a SSB contest. I just don't care that
much for phone contesting, although I did manage over 500 qso in the
ssbwpx this weekend.

The most contacts I ever made in a contest was 384. It happened to be
the Feb 2004 ARRL International DX contest on CW.


Good job.


I did hear you calling CQ one day within the last few months and an
African station came back to you if I remember correctly. So I went on
by.

Sorry I missed the QSO Dee.

Looking at my log, I've only worked 16 stations in Alabama.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE


We will find each other one day. Take care Dee.

Dan/W4NTI


Unless something comes up, I and the OM will be on the Michigan QSO Party
under either N8UZE or K8BSG.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

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Unless something comes up, I and the OM will be on the Michigan QSO Party
under either N8UZE or K8BSG.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE


Post something here to get my attention before that happens. I'll find ya.

Dan/W4NTI

"Bert Craig" wrote in message
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Dan/W4NTI wrote:
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Bert Craig wrote:
Just finished up with K8BBM to put WY in the log and earn WAS
QRP
CW!

Next goal is WAC, then DXCC.

...and it all started with PA on 7031 on 9/10/03...courtesy of
N2EY.
Tnx
Jim. :-)

Good show - Congratulations.

You're already at least three countries into your dxcc, now go
get
the
other 97. If I were you I'd concentrate on 20 & 15M where QRP
signals
have a better shot at the long-haul goodies than they do on 40M.


--
Vy 73 de Bert
WA2SI
FISTS #9384
QRP ARCI #11782

w3rv

Thats another easy one these days. I make DXCC nearly every
contest
I
enter.

I agree, been there, done it and then some, a 48-hour dxcc is almost
a
no-brainer IF you have a reasonably competitive station, dxing
experience, the sun spots are with you and you stay in the seat.
Those
are all big "ifs" though. If Bert sticks to 40M with 5w and some
air-cooled wire he has a *real* slog ahead of him (years?) I for one
simply don't have the patience to deal with. All that aside yupper,
his
best shot at new ones per hour by far is during the cw dx contests.

I prefer 20 for hunting DX. The contacts seem to come mush easier and
my 5 W appear to goe much farther, literally. I can't really do much
re. my antenna situation but I'm increasing my pwr out tho. Anywhere
from 40 W to 100 W should suffice. I'm swapping the Carolina Windom for
an 88' doublet, hoping for favorable lobe placement of the 20 EDZ.

You better believe that you'll find me (Or vice versa, hi.) during CW
contests. Some of my states were nabbed during the ubiquitous "bacon
runs."

Without the QSL's of course...hi

Boo! No counter!

I have a very good return rate so far. I always include a
self-addressed Air Mail envelope along with the appropriate green
stamp/IRC(s). If a US station requests a SASE, I comply. Life's too
short and I'm havin' too much fun to sweat the $0.37, although I
certainly respect those who do.

Hey Bert - How many states do you actually have confirmed so far?

Well, I just checked my QSL cards and I currently have 18 "in hand"
with Belarus, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Sweden expected in
the mail. I'm encouraged by the fact that theses were all casual
"contacts of opportunity" while hunting down the final few states
for WAS.

Dan/W4NTI

w3rv

73 de Bert
WA2SI


When I said "without QSL's" I meant this. I don't usually count contest
QSO's for my dx hunting. So I forgot about all the thousands of cards I
have here from the bureau over the last many years. So I am sure I have
enough cards for most, if not all, of the awards offered.

I'm just not much of a paper hunter....except for contest certificates.

Dan/W4NTI

wrote

If you have a packet spots network up
and running in your neighborhood by all means plug into it.

Kelly gives a lot of good DXing advice in his message, but the above sentences
is really BAD advice.

Packet clusters are for slugs. Real radiomen work DX without being led to it by
the nose. There's a french tongue twister which puts it like this:

"Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien."
(A hunter who knows how to hunt hunts without his dog)

73, de Hans, K0HB

K=D8HB wrote:
wrote

If you have a packet spots network up
and running in your neighborhood by all means plug into it.

Kelly gives a lot of good DXing advice in his message, but the above
sentences
is really BAD advice.

Packet clusters are for slugs. Real radiomen work DX without being
led to it by
the nose. There's a french tongue twister which puts it like this:

"Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien."
(A hunter who knows how to hunt hunts without his dog)

Hee! Options, options, options . . if we didn't have all the options we
have there wouldn't be anything to bitch about and we'd all live
peacefully together. In which case you'd be in a helluva fix.

73, de Hans, K0HB

w3rv

Dan/W4NTI wrote:

When I said "without QSL's" I meant this. I don't usually count
contest
QSO's for my dx hunting. So I forgot about all the thousands of
cards I
have here from the bureau over the last many years. So I am sure I
have
enough cards for most, if not all, of the awards offered.

I'm just not much of a paper hunter....except for contest
certificates.

There are all sorts of directions one can opt to go in this game.

I wouldn't ignore a Q with Sprately just because I happened to work him
in the CQ WW or some such. Particularly these days when the expeditions
to rare places go there specifically to operate in the contests. I also
collect paper but for the most part only the really tough ones. A 5BWAZ
is about as tough as they come and I'm not even close. Ya got an 80M
Zone 23 card in your stacks?

Dan/W4NTI

w3rv

I figured the comments about the QSLs would get mixed into this thread. I
have said many times the stations that I've had contact with while on
HF--and they've all been questioned and discounted because I "don't have a
QSL" to prove it. Ha!! Don't need the paper--I knew I did it; although I
am not all that sure that the contacts I've had are all that "special."

Not a paper chaser at all, never was even intrigued by it. Not a QSLer,
although I design them all the time--THAT's the part I like. I really enjoy
designing them.

So, it appears Dan must've said something, again, about not having QSLs for
a contact. Pfffffttttttt, who cayas?

Kim W5TIT


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Dan/W4NTI wrote:

When I said "without QSL's" I meant this. I don't usually count
contest
QSO's for my dx hunting. So I forgot about all the thousands of
cards I
have here from the bureau over the last many years. So I am sure I
have
enough cards for most, if not all, of the awards offered.

I'm just not much of a paper hunter....except for contest
certificates.

There are all sorts of directions one can opt to go in this game.

I wouldn't ignore a Q with Sprately just because I happened to work him
in the CQ WW or some such. Particularly these days when the expeditions
to rare places go there specifically to operate in the contests. I also
collect paper but for the most part only the really tough ones. A 5BWAZ
is about as tough as they come and I'm not even close. Ya got an 80M
Zone 23 card in your stacks?

Dan/W4NTI

w3rv

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Dan/W4NTI wrote:

When I said "without QSL's" I meant this. I don't usually count
contest
QSO's for my dx hunting. So I forgot about all the thousands of
cards I
have here from the bureau over the last many years. So I am sure I
have
enough cards for most, if not all, of the awards offered.

I'm just not much of a paper hunter....except for contest
certificates.

There are all sorts of directions one can opt to go in this game.

I wouldn't ignore a Q with Sprately just because I happened to work him
in the CQ WW or some such. Particularly these days when the expeditions
to rare places go there specifically to operate in the contests. I also
collect paper but for the most part only the really tough ones. A 5BWAZ
is about as tough as they come and I'm not even close. Ya got an 80M
Zone 23 card in your stacks?

Dan/W4NTI

w3rv

Sure do, just printed em up...hi. Understand.

Dan/W4NTI