[SEDXC] 5BDXCC!

[Mike Greenway]

Jeff, the next step is the Challenge.  That will keep you busy hunting forever.  That is my prime focus these days because if you are waiting for a new country to come along to chase they are far and few between.  I see a lot of guys do that and their operating skills get so rusty doing that they don’t know what is going on when something does come along.  If you have 5 bands you are on the way.  You have to reach 1000 countries total, any mode, 160-6 confirmed in DXCC.  60 does not count.  At that point you are automatically in the Challenge.

73 Mike K4PI

From: Jeffrey Otterson 
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 1:48 PM
To: Mike Greenway 
Cc: Bill Coleman ; SEDXC 
Subject: Re: [SEDXC] 5BDXCC!

I just finished mine in December, too.  it was a race to see if 80 or 30 got to 100 first, and both were tough.  I had set DXCC Challenge and  5BDXCC + WARC as a goal for 2017. 

Now I find that I am lacking ambition to work the radio as hard as I did last year.  The Grid Chase does not excite me.


Congratulations, Bill.

Jeff n1kdo

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Mike Greenway <K4PI at bellsouth.net> wrote:

  Congrats Bill.  It can be a long trail to winding that award up.  GL 73 Mike K4PI

  From: Bill Coleman
  Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:52 PM
  To: SEDXC
  Subject: [SEDXC] 5BDXCC!


  Well, I messed up my card submission in December, so I left off my application for 80m DXCC, I just had endorsements. No matter, I figured, when it is finished, I’ll just submit an LoTW application for 80m and 5BDXCC.

  Turns out, unless you have a confirmation for 80m, you can’t apply for the 80m award on LoTW, even if you already have 100 credits!

  So, I had to wait until my J5T confirmations came in. With that done, I applied this morning for 80m DXCC and 5BDXCC (with the 30m endorsement), and it is already approved!

  I only started pursuing DXCC back in 2003 when LoTW started up. I remember Jim Streible K4DLI telling me that it took him 30 years to get his 5BDXCC. Didn’t quite take me that long with LoTW.

  Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
  Web: http://boringhamradiopart.blogspot.com
  Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
              -- Wilbur Wright, 1901

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