<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Congratulations Fred, Well Done!!! That monster antenna of yours has been your sidekick except on 80 chasing these awards. I am just happy with my 300+ confirmed all band- Just missed 8Q7WM on 80 last night- my loop take off angle for 80 meters limits its effectiveness to about 1500-2000 miles- He heard me above the frequency of the fray but couldn't pull me out Have to try to get into the pileup little earlier than I did last night. BTW he switched to 40 but those conditions were much worse than the 80 meter conditions where he was peaking S5-7 most of time I was chasing him </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">73 Phil K3EW</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 1:08 PM Fred Matos via NCDXA <<a href="mailto:ncdxa@ncdxa.org">ncdxa@ncdxa.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I had some goals when I began my new amateur radio life three years ago when I moved to a new QTH.</div>
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<div>I recently completed DXCC on the WARC bands, all CW or SSB, and all confirmed on LoTW.</div>
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<div>I also wanted to obtain the DXCC Challenge award.</div>
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<div>I now have DXCC on eight bands. with 10 meters completed today with ZP being my last one. (BTW, I made 5-Band DXCC in 1983).</div>
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<div>I also have 93 LoTW-confirmed on 160. But only three on six meters.</div>
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<div>Overall, I have 1200 band-countries, all LoTW, and all CW or SSB.</div>
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<div>I applied for the award today.</div>
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<div>The odd thing was my DXCC on 10. I did it without England, Japan, or Australia. I have some England QSOs, but they did not use LoTW.</div>
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<div>Fred</div>
<div>W3ICM</div>
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