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Nice DX to welcome in 2025
3 January 2025 | by
Beginning the year with a little plate of DX. On Friday while I was practicing with a CW contesting program I also had running in the background DX Heat. I saw E29TGW from Thailand spotted on 20m from a U.S. station. A lot of the time when I see and check out these spots I am met with static. I turned on the radio and spun the VFO to his frequency. He was there but weak and now and then he popped up to an S3. The best thing was he was calling CQ and no one was there to answer him. I dropped my call a few times and he came back to me and I was in the log.
Next I saw 7Q2T from Malawi Africa who was spotted on 10m and so I dialed him up and this signal was strong and operating simplex. He was in the log in no time and so within 15 minutes I had 2 ATNO's in the log. It was now time to get back to CW contest practicing.
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Congratulations Mike! I nabbed four ATNO’s in 2024 and hope for some more in 2025. One of our club members now lives in Thailand but Zoom “contacts” don’t count. I worked a fellow in Thailand last year running 50 Watts on 40m SSB during QuartzFest to win one of the DX Challenge spots and all the bling. One never knows what will show up when tuning the Big Knob.
73, Bill, K8TE
Good morning Bill, and very nice to hear from you. Yes, I’m guessing ARRL DXCC does not include Zoom calls. :)). That is the fun and interesting thing about radio in that you never know who or where you will run into on the bands.
Have a great week Bill and weekend.
73,
Mike
VE9KK