[SEDXC] 5BDXCC!

[Bill Coleman]

I got 30m last year, but it doesn’t count for 5BDXCC! You have to get DXCC on each of the traditional, harmonically related bands of 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10m.

> On Jan 25, 2018, at 1:48 PM, Jeffrey Otterson <otterson_nospam at nhrc.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
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>             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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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