CURRENT INTERESTS...



5 BAND DXCC - DXCC CHALLENGE - 5 BAND WAS

My current interests are DXing and Contesting. Actually, my buddies Bil (W8EB) and Bob (W9NIP) got me hooked on DX back in 1995. They didn't know the monster that they would create. They also didn't warn me about the expenses involved in QSLing! I soon found out. I now hold:

WAZ AWARDS

I contest in CW, RTTY and PHONE, in that preferred order. I have a good number of first place certificates for my state and section. Each year I try to improve on my performance.

I started contesting as a way to build up my country/band totals and ended up getting hooked on the competitive fun. Oftentimes relatively rare countries are on the air during contests. Also, many Super Stations are active and they have both great receive and transmit capability . . . a real plus to the small stations looking to make contact.

Achieving 5 Band DXCC is well within reach of the average station. At a minimum, the first 100 countries on 40 and 80 meters in the table below were worked using a Butternut HF6V ground-mounted vertical.

I used my Quad for 10, 15, and 20 meters, but I'm sure that the vertical would also have easily worked 100 countries on each of these bands.

DXCC STATUS (Active Countries) - Through 04 December 2006

CATEGORY WORKED CONFIRMED CATEGORY WORKED CONFIRMED
DXCC Mixed 335 332 DXCC 30 180 157
DXCC SSB 330 323 DXCC 20 325 318
DXCC CW 327 317 DXCC 17 274 242
DXCC RTTY 278 239 DXCC 15 313 303
DXCC 160 128 124 DXCC 12 259 219
DXCC 80 201 188 DXCC 10 278 263
DXCC 40 277 259 DXCC 6 0 0

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