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Old October 25th 04, 07:02 AM
Steve Robeson, K4CAP
 
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Subject: These EXTRA'S, Steve::: WHICH Extras, Brain?
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Date: 10/22/2004 5:54 AM Central Standard Time
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btw, Steve, no disrespect intended, but among those folks, 115 countries
isn't
a big deal. Twice that many isn't! It's just a matter of what they focus on.


No offense taken.


btw - is that 115 countries worked, or 115 countries confirmed?


115 confirmed...135 worked last I counted...I ahven't been
proactively collecting cards since I moved to Winchester.

I know that a lot of the "big ones" are in the bottom 25kHz, but at the
same time, a lot of them transmit in the bottom 25 and listen up. That's
where I caught a lot of them.


Of course.

Although I know you can use "past" callsigns collectively to get your
DXCC, I reworked almost all of them again under K4YZ to get my DXCC. A few
were left overs from when I held my 2X1, but most were done over...just to do
it.


But wouldn't it be easier to work them with a shorter call?


I haven't had a "long" call since February 1980!~

I never really cared for the 2 x 1 format a whole lot. I always
wanted a "K" call 1x2 or 1x3.

The "YZ" worked for me in two ways...first it sounds very
distinctive on CW, and secondly since one of the USMC units I was in
had the tail "modex" of "YZ".

I received a bunch of nice 160M QSL cards that were actaully
meant for "KC8MK", not my old call of "KC8M"...I've not received any
misdirected cards since I switched to K4YZ in 96.

73

Steve, K4YZ


 
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