Topband: Fw: #1 on the DXCC Honor Roll

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

Thanks Frank for the fascinating information.  I guess Charlie, W1FH was 
at the right place at the right time. Remember this was before spotting 
and the internet as you were required to do a lot of listening across 
the band to grab something as super rare as CR8.


Herb, KV4FZ

On 2/27/2015 7:40 PM, donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> Hi Herb,
>
> The DXer you're referring to is Charlie Mellen W1FH and the deleted
> DXCC entity is CR8 Damao, Diu. He kindly loaned my his CR8 QSL
> for a DXCC QSL display at the 1966 ARRL National Convention in
> 1966.
>
> W6ODD/CR8 made 55 QSOs on August 2, 1948, the only activity
> from this DXCC entity taken over by military force in 1961.
>
> http://hamgallery.com/qsl/deleted/Damao_Diu/w6odd2.htm
>
> Google: W6ODD/CR8
>
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
>
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>> For years, some time ago, there was a DXER who was always #1 on the ARRL
>> DXCC Honor Roll. He always had one more country than everybody else.
>> I've never been able to find out what that country ( or entity as they
>> call it now) was, i.e. a country that this top gun had worked and that
>> no other DX-er had apparently worked. Nobody at the DXCC "Desk" (as they
>> call it) would not tell me either.
>>
>>
>> Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
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