Monday, March 19, 2012

A25 Botswana on three bands in succession

Today is a bank holiday in Ireland. Unfortunately, although most other people are off work today, I was working, as I do on every bank holiday. However, I managed to get finished quite early today and found myself, quite surprisingly, with time for radio. I didn't expect to be home until about 6 or 7pm but instead I was home at 2.30pm.

 
It was time that was not wasted. Within the space of a couple of hours not only had I worked A25 Botswana as a brand new DXCC, but I put that country into the log on THREE different bands. To say I'm pleased would be putting it ever so mildly . . . I was grateful for this lucky window of opportunity!

I managed to get a video of my QSO with A25KW on 17m CW on my smart phone. That's the one shown above. It was good timing I guess. I had worked A25KW on 15m CW on my Butternut vertical as a brand new DXCC, and then on 17m, and some time later I nabbed A25JR on 20m CW, also with my Butternut.

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  1. Good afternoon Anthony, you seem to be really hoping with the DXCC's for sure. Great work on A25 now I just have to get my rear in gear and start moving on my DXCC's or the Diamond Jubilee with just be a pipe dream.

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    1. Thanks Mike. The CW has helped enormously. That's three contacts today all on CW. A great number of the new DXCC's that I have worked were on morse. Do you have CW yourself?

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  2. I do have CW and that is all I work wether it's contests or hanging around the QRP freq's. With my QRP adventures and QRPp CW is the only way to go.

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    1. Mike, that's great. You don't need me to tell you that CW is a great mode. I love it. I don't generally do QRP but worked about 230 countries with 100 watts and still from time to time make contacts with only 50 or less.

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