Wes Stewart *n7ws*@ yahoo.com said :

I've been an on again-off again DXer for 40 years and never got
excited about 5BDXCC until last year. One band and mode was good
enough. Now I've got the bug to get mine before I croak. I need 10
Q's and about 20 cards on 80 to have it.

Good luck Wes. I'm guessing 100 on 80's a lot harder if you're in
7-land than in 1,2,3 or 4-land. Mind you, Honor Roll is a bit easier
for 6s and 7s than for us east-coasters, I suppose, with a nice clean
shot to those rare Asian and Pacific rim entities.

What I did is made a checklist of all the Central and South American
entities, Caribbean and Europe. I didn't bother with asia, oceania,
antarctica, pacific, etc, because that's just not generally workable
on 80 from here with what I've got up in the air. I ran the math and
realized that if I clean out all the comonly-workable entities in
Europe, the Caribbean region, North America and a few Africans, that's
well over 100. I got lucky and nailed a ZL late one night (thanks to
CT3MD who helped!). Hawaii was easy in contests (KH7X, I swear, must
be 59+ on the moon).

I'm guessing you got the XF4 on 80 last year? Not a whisper here,
alas. If FO0 comes up, you'll get them for sure from there...ditto
HK0/m is due up in the net 18 months, so that's andther easy one if
you're in 7-land. I'm personally looking forward to getting CY9 on 80
this year, and someday CY0 when somebody goes back to Sable. I *will*
say it's nice living 3 miles line-of-sight from 4U1UN, though grin.

73 de Peter, W2IRT
(ex-AB2NZ, VE3THX)

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