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DXCC, Finally…

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I just sub­mit­ted my appli­ca­tion for DXCC via LoTW. This has been an achieve­ment I have fan­ta­sized for my entire time I have been licensed. Thanks to RZ0AF Andrei I sub­mit­ted my appli­ca­tion today.

Paths to Everywhere!

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I have been play­ing with HFTA soft­ware from the ARRL Anten­na Book to deter­mine the typ­i­cal take-off angles need­ed to com­mu­ni­cate to DX locales. First step was to devel­op my ele­va­tion pro­file, which I did based upon the instruc­tions includ­ed using a pro­gram named Micro­DEM. While not the most intu­itive thing in the world, I did man­age to …

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QSL Return Rates

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eQSL con­fir­ma­tion rate: 26% LoTW con­fir­ma­tion rate: 46% If CQ is seri­ous about using eQSL for the con­fir­ma­tion cam­paigns for their pri­ma­ry awards, the par­tic­i­pa­tion bet­ter step up. The Triple Play Award has stepped up the usage of LoTW. Learn­ing curve is steep, but sec­ond nature once you get the freakin’ hang of the cer­tifi­cate sys­tem. (Warn­ing, gross generalizations …

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On QSLing

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I am hav­ing a new batch of QSLs print­ed up. I am tak­ing a mul­ti-pronged approach, and try­ing a cou­ple of ven­dors this time. 1. I am a big fan of cus­tom QSLs, and hav­ing a graph­ic design­er wife (very expen­sive in the form of shoes and hand­bags) it is quite achiev­able for me. My recent iter­a­tion is some­thing that I have been toy­ing with over the …

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