On 8 Feb 2005 12:35:05 -0600, Peter Dougherty
wrote:

|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.

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm three away from Honor Roll,
although I know some guys who have it and they didn't get it
honorably. Africa seems to be the toughie for me. Just listening to
9Q0AR fading into the 20m noise level, while giving the right coast
59+. Glad I don't need it.
|
|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).

You're better organized than I am. If I'm on and they're on, I'll try
to work them. But I'm not too much into predictions [g].

I picked up V5 and 3D2 to make it 92 worked (not counting VP6DIA,
where I don't show in their online log---but I'm asking for a busted
call check).

I heard DX0K on 80 this morning. He was working 40 and somebody got
him to QSY. By the time I retuned the amp to 80 he was back on 40.
So, remembering VP6DIA, I worked him again on 40 just in case [g].
Heard VU2WAP a couple of days ago, or was it yesterday, I forget.
Good signal but no ears.
|
|I'm guessing you got the XF4 on 80 last year?

No, but I got that in 1977.

|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.

I dunno... I'm a few miles in between W7DD and N7DD, and I haven't
found that to be an advantage.