"Today in my Box"

Latest direct QSL arrivals:

C21GC - Stan - Nauru - small bureau version card

C21GC - Stan - Nauru - Double QSL card front - masterpiece artwork by F5UKW and kiss print by UX5UO

C21GC - Stan - Nauru - Double QSL card back - masterpiece artwork by F5UKW and kiss print by UX5UO

CY0/VA1AXC Aaron Sable Island on 40M SSB

5R8M - Madagascar front - lovely double QSL card

5R8M Madagascar back

CY0C - one day DXpedition to Sable Island TNX Gary

XX9R - Macao

Challenge 2000

The ARRL Logbook of The World

Latest QSO with RI1ANR - Antarctica Novo Runway Airbase - and they recent LoTW upload gave me 2000 slots confirmed on DXCC Challenge.

This is big achievement for my modest station , little garden station. 

DXCC Challenge is counted by new country on each band. For example my

QSO with RI1ANR is counted as new DXCC on 15M

This is not a surprise that I am searching for stations using LoTW.

Few DX-Clusters are showing that option so it is much easier to find them.

Sometimes there is no choice , I have 5 countries CFM by traditional paper

QSL card only which I am big fan too.

For example ... Mount Athos

SV2ASP/A Mount Athos Monk Apollo QSL card

This is my list of DXCC confirmed by paper QSL only:

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

DEM. REP. OF THE CONGO

MINAMI TORISHIMA

MOUNT ATHOS

WESTERN SAHARA

EP6T - Iran

EP6T on 21Mhz SSB in EI

Big demand on the bands. Hard to break pile-up especially on lower bands here in EI. Signal is great but this time Ireland is on the end of the Europe and we have to fight with much closer to EP6T all EU stations. This is tough. And I had example last few days on low bands 30/40 how their pile-up looks. When EI is getting best opening then EP6T is calling NA/SA ... today on 12M SSB operator on the other side was clever and he was calling NA/SA and North Europe as well. 12M was hardest for me so far. One QSO per / band for me is enough. No slot hunting anymore. Deliberate QRM makers are getting worst and I am not enjoying listening idiots. 

17M CW today was tricky ... worked up 12 or something , watching carefully split preferences ....

10M RTTY worked very easy , two calls just for new mode.

Biggest fun on 20M CW when 1000 stations were calling them up 2 to up 15 or similar leaving big gap up1 clear ... took my chance,

EP6T says on their QRZ.com page:

"In a country with 80 million inhabitants and only 13 (!) radio amateurs,"

DX-Pedition to Iran is most welcome. And another Team can go soon and massive pile-up will be guaranteed.

EP6T - Kish Island AS-166

DX - season has started

This is EP6T , Iran , great signal on 15M CW and brand-new DX-Pedition on the bands. I am lucky to have Iran already confirmed on few bands by EP3PK by card and on LoTW as well so I don`t have big pressure to work them now in big pile-up.

C5X The Gambia DX-Pedition

It is time to work C5X ..by  "G"  

First of all excellent operators , Excellent QSL-Managaer ...

I have Gambia worked and confirmed on all HF bands , including TB

but only two slots CFM on LoTW. Now it is perfect opportunity to get some more slots 

from Gambia.

ZK3Q & 5W0AG QSL cards

Beautiful QSL cards RX`ed

ZK3Q QSL Card - Tokelau by SP5EAQ Jacek

5W0AG QSL Card - Samoa by SP5ES Marcin

Year 2014 and some statistics

Timelines by Clublog

255 DXCC worked in 2014. It could be more , when realized it was too late to chase for

some "new ones" in 2014

Missed few countries where "locals" are active but ... this is not my main target

to chase DXCC by year. This is just example how conditions were good in 2014

for DXing on high bands.

7 new countries worked as ATNO

AMSTERDAM & ST PAUL ISANDS

CHATHAM ISLAND

MELLISH REEF

WESTERN SAHARA

TRISTAN DA CUNHA & GOUGH ISLANDS

ERITREA

TROMELIN ISLAND

I had my focus on stations using LoTW and it gave me

301 DXCC CFM on LoTW

with 

1980 slots for DXCC Challenge