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WB4SON
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CWT Contest #80 Completed!
Posted: 10 Nov 2021 11:51 AM PST
https://wb4son.com/wpblog/?p=4600
Well the day started off on the wrong foot when I forgot to take into
account the clock change and showed up for the 1300Z CWT an hour late! (I couldnt figure out why the band was dead.) I recovered from that and
worked 30 stations on 40m in a half hour at 1900z. That appears to be my
80th CWT for this year. While I started the CWTs too late to finish the
year with a gold medallion, that will be a goal for next year. Im still
happy with silver for my 1st year.
Many thanks to everyone at CWops and all the CWT participants. Especially thanks to Joe Spencer, KK5NA, who was my CWA Advanced Class instructor, and Bruce Blain, K1BG, who spoke at my radio club (Newport County Radio
Club) and introduced us to CWops and the CW Academy.
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At 16,000 QSOs in LotW
Posted: 10 Nov 2021 08:53 AM PST
https://wb4son.com/wpblog/?p=4594
Not hard to do these days, given all the CWTs Ive been participating in, as well as POTA activations.
The percentage of confirmed contacts has been dropping, primarily due to
the large number of state-side QSOs Ive had. Apparently, few of the POTA
or CWT folks bother to upload their logs to LotW. Since ARRL membership is
a requirement, perhaps that is an indication that fewer of those folks
belong to the ARRL.
I started 2021 with 12,000 QSOs in the log, so this is 4,000 more since
then. One of my goals for 2021 was to add 1,500 QSOs. Got that one by a mile.
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