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WAS!!!
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. :-) -- Vy 73 de Bert WA2SI FISTS #9384 QRP ARCI #11782 |
WOOHOO!!!!! Yay for you, Bert!!!
So, you are going to to the WAC! I know a friend, KN5I, I think he's done it twice and was on his third time around last time we hung around with him. The first certificate was absolutely beautiful. The second one wasn't bad...but much smaller. Good luck!! Kim W5TIT "Bert Craig" wrote in message ... 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. :-) -- Vy 73 de Bert WA2SI FISTS #9384 QRP ARCI #11782 |
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 |
Congrads Bert
WY is one of the least populous states 1614 hams there according to QRZ http://www.qrz.com/i/census.html? -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! "Bert Craig" wrote in message ... 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. :-) -- Vy 73 de Bert WA2SI FISTS #9384 QRP ARCI #11782 |
"Bert Craig" wrote in message ... 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. :-) -- 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 |
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. :-) Congrats on your achievement, Bert! Dave K8MN |
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. :-) WTG, Bert! Now...cut the power in half and do it all over again! =) 73 Steve, K4YZ |
Bert Craig wrote:
Just finished up with K8BBM to put WY in the log and earn WAS QRP CW! WOOHOO! And from the East Coast, too. With a simple wire antenna IIRC. Next goal is WAC, then DXCC. On 40 meters? Can be done! ...and it all started with PA on 7031 on 9/10/03...courtesy of N2EY. And the Southgate Type 7 Tnx Jim. :-) My pleasure, Bert. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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oups.com... Bert Craig wrote: Just finished up with K8BBM to put WY in the log and earn WAS QRP CW! WOOHOO! And from the East Coast, too. With a simple wire antenna IIRC. About half w/a 66' doublet and the other half w/a Carolina Windom 40 LP. Next goal is WAC, then DXCC. On 40 meters? Can be done! True, but I'm starting to love 20 now. Belarus this morning. I've worked about 15 countries total already. DX Q's are a breeze compared to CONUS ragchews. My standard power level will rise from 5 W to approx. 20 W. (With 100 W available for those ruff cpy rpts.) ...and it all started with PA on 7031 on 9/10/03...courtesy of N2EY. And the Southgate Type 7 Tnx Jim. :-) My pleasure, Bert. 73 de Jim, N2EY Tnx agn. :-) -- Vy 73 de Bert WA2SI FISTS #9384 (Submitted my log for my CC certificate a few days ago.) QRP ARCI #11782 |
"Kim" wrote in message ... WOOHOO!!!!! Yay for you, Bert!!! So, you are going to to the WAC! I know a friend, KN5I, I think he's done it twice and was on his third time around last time we hung around with him. The first certificate was absolutely beautiful. The second one wasn't bad...but much smaller. Good luck!! Kim W5TIT "Bert Craig" wrote in message ... 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. :-) -- Vy 73 de Bert WA2SI FISTS #9384 QRP ARCI #11782 Congrats to you Bert....but I disagree....WAC is simple. Just hang around on 20 long enough and they will come to you. I real accomplishment would be WAS on 5bands....I.E. 5BWAS. Now that is tough. Dan/W4NTI |
wrote in message oups.com... 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. Without the QSL's of course...hi Dan/W4NTI |
"Dee Flint" wrote in message ... "Bert Craig" wrote in message ... 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. :-) -- 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 |
"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message . net... "Dee Flint" wrote in message ... "Bert Craig" wrote in message ... 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. :-) -- 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. What contests do I work? Well I like Sweepstakes, State QSO parties, and the DX contests. If you are one of the very fast CW ops, I probably passed you by. 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. The most contacts I ever made in a contest was 384. It happened to be the Feb 2004 ARRL International DX contest on CW. 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. Looking at my log, I've only worked 16 stations in Alabama. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
Dan/W4NTI wrote: wrote in message oups.com... 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. Without the QSL's of course...hi Boo! No counter! Hey Bert - How many states do you actually have confirmed so far? Dan/W4NTI w3rv |
Dan/W4NTI wrote: wrote in message oups.com... 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. Without the QSL's of course...hi Dan/W4NTI One of Bert's possible fast track routes to a 5w dxcc would be to do a bit of traveling and put BY7/WA2SI/QRP on the air . . Navassa would work too. w3rv |
wrote in message oups.com... Dan/W4NTI wrote: wrote in message oups.com... 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. Without the QSL's of course...hi Dan/W4NTI One of Bert's possible fast track routes to a 5w dxcc would be to do a bit of traveling and put BY7/WA2SI/QRP on the air . . Navassa would work too. w3rv Yep...so would North Korea. Dan/W4NTI |
"Dee Flint" wrote in message ... "Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message . net... "Dee Flint" wrote in message ... "Bert Craig" wrote in message ... 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. :-) -- 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 |
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Bert Craig wrote:
I prefer 20 for hunting DX. The contacts seem to come mush easier... Freudian, Bert? Dave K8MN |
Bert Craig wrote: wrote: 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. There's no "appears to" about it, it's absolute fact. 40M rules the domestic scene and to some extent is OK for working SA and western EU but when it gets down to working ZLs, VUs and JAs on 40 from the east coast it gets really gruesome even with 100W. When 15M is open it's even better than 20 as far as long-haul "big signals per watt" is concerned, *don't* ignore 15M. If you have a packet spots network up and running in your neighborhood by all means plug into it. 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. That'll be a huge improvement. I' swapping the Carolina Windom for an 88' doublet, hoping for favorable lobe placement of the 20 EDZ. Model it? . 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." Sure. Around midnite during one of the recent Field Day operations not much was going on on 20M CW so I switched to doing some dxing. Quickly worked JA, VK, OA, a couple Ws and a DL. Jim was there. If I'd been able to find an African I would have made a one-hour midnite Field Day CW WAC. It gets in your blood. Ya can't help it . . 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. It's all an ancient and accepted part of the game. Coaxing QSLs out of the dx can get expensive and tedious though when done in volume. I've run into gnats which probably have better clerical skills than I have. Gathering up the 500+ cards for my 5BDXCC was a bookeeping chore from hell I'll never forget. 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? 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. Dan/W4NTI w3rv 73 de Bert WA2SI w3rv |
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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. -- Vy 73 de Bert WA2SI FISTS #9384 QRP ARCI #11782 |
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oups.com... Bert Craig wrote: wrote: 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. -- Vy 73 de Bert WA2SI FISTS #9384 QRP ARCI #11782 |
"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message k.net... "Dee Flint" wrote in message ... "Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message . net... "Dee Flint" wrote in message ... "Bert Craig" wrote in message ... 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. :-) -- 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 |
"Dee Flint" wrote in message ... 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 |
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 wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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