How to properly brag about your DXing accomplishments
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It’s late at night & the rest of your family is asleep. Insomnia has you up and about, conveniently in front of the rig with a small light on. Temps outside are below freezing and the QRN is almost nonexistent.
You take advantage of this confluence of rare circumstances and tune around at the bottom of the 80 meter band. Your tireless devotion to the hobby is rewarded as you copy a stronger-than-you’d-expect CQ from across the Atlantic. It’s a 9L station in Sierra Leone! On 80 meters? Can’t be…..but it is. And best of all, no one’s calling him.
So you hit the memory button on your keyer, sending your call. But he’s listening up & didn’t hear you. A few quick adjustments of your transmit VFO and several calls later, you get him. Just like that, a new country – and a semi-rare one at that – on 80 meters. You’d have been happy to have worked him on 20m, but 80m? Awesome!
Now what? You gonna keep it to yourself? Of course not. Continue reading 'How to properly brag about your DXing accomplishments'»
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