Re: [DX-CHAT] At long, long, last...

2003-01-31 Thread Kelly Jones
Congrats Ron! I can relate to your excitement. This year was also when I completed 5BDXCC finishing up 80 this season. For whatever reason when I lived in Illinois I just never got down on 75/80 to work DX. I guess I was under that common mis-conception that there wasn't any DX on that band

RE: [DX-CHAT] At long, long, last...

2003-01-31 Thread Ragnar Otterstad
Congrats Ron! - I can relate to your excitement although it is some 30 years since I did my first 5BDXCC. The second was from OZ8RO. For whatever reason when I lived in Illinois I just never got down on 75/80 to work DX. I guess I was under that common mis-conception that there

Re: [DX-CHAT] At long, long, last...

2003-01-31 Thread kss
Congrats !!! My 80 meter DXCC was a real surprise to me. I never did keep any kind of record as to band/mode but used to just love to work DX on 80 and 40 with a shunt fed tower system that Dave K8MN (A22MN, J52US, etc..) had engineered during one of his RR's home from Africa while staying at my