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What I'm up to. In early July of 2009 I realized I was getting quite a few LotW cards and decided to check into the ARRL's Triple Play award . Basically, the Triple Play is awarded for making contacts with all 50 US States on CW, SSB, and Digital for a total of 150 contacts. All contacts MUST be confirmed through the ARRL's Logbook of the World (LotW) . I've been looking for contacts mainly from the K3UK Sked page for LotW. There are several Sked pages here for Digital, SKCC, Fists, LotW, Worked all France,
In February of '09 I realized there are a lot of counties on CW on the County Hunter net frequencies and also in the state QSO parties I wasn't working, and decided it was time to pull the old straight key out of the moth balls. After a little CW I came to the realization that the straight key had to be replaced. I borrowed a Bencher paddle from K8DID and it didn't take long at all to realize this was the way to go. I could work the contests and didn't feel the least bit fatigued. My CW still isn't perfect,
What a year for change. In May of '09 I made the plunge and purchased a used (of course) SB220. I had told myself I didn't need an amp until I hit at least 300 DXCC entities. Well, I'm a bit over that and stumbled into a decent price on an amplifier and had to pick it up. I'm not much for house wiring, so my friend N8KRD helped me run the 220 (Ok, he did it all). The new 220 line hadn't been hooked up for 5 minutes when I called another friend WB8FIW to come over and help me test the amp out. WB8FIW has a 2
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