(biting my lip, waiting....Waiting....WAITING..WATING....AAAAAAUUUUGGGHHHHH!!!!).... .............Thankfully though, QSL cards came yesterday from my back to back ATNO Bahrain qsos from early April.....Sending registered mail really helped......Very cool stamps for the stamp collection too......Getting those cards yesterday put a smile on my face and eased the continued PAIN of waiting for cards from these DXpeditions that I need for ANTOs...... .............Tnx A92GR and A92IO......

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Get yourself a couplpe of plastic slot qsl card displays and hang them up on the wall...they sell them at any ham radio outlet like AES..otherwise, get a few shoe boxes, alphabetize them in the order on the DXCC list and keep them in there......I keep mine at arms length in three shoe boxes in the shack....any dupes get pinned up on the wall.....I love getting qsl cards, even if they are from Japan or Germany.....being the geography geek that I am....Someone on here said if more people did LOTW they would not have this problem.....What's the problem???.....there are ways to keep things orderly.....LOTW is no fun....collecting qsl cards, especially from exotic places your signal has reached is....

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Ah..you like that, eh???.... .....Yia Sou, Tony....and next month our local Greek Othordox Church has their annual food festival, which is the best one in the area!......needless to say, I will be first in line!...... ......

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WOW!...what a signal last night on 20 meters cw!!!.....and for the first time in over 10 years, It was nice to  finally get another Dodecanese station.....As you know, I have been having trouble getting qsls out of Rhodes over the years, so this one w/ an OQRS is a definate pursuit after all this time....I could never hear SV5BYR, but that sig last night from those dudes on that lighthouse really rocked....and thanks to those guys for hanging in there with me until they got my call letters correct!.....good stuff!

OPA!
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Yes....By day, working the pile-ups....by night, hitting the casinos....Or by day, lazing on the beach, and by night, working the pile-ups......eitehr way, I figured the term was along those lines.....thanks....

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Someone (who's a seasoned DXer and/or DXpeditioner), please splain!.....What is it when a dxpedtion is working holiday style?.....My initial inclination is that the operator is hanging out on the beach with a bucket full of Corona mini's, an 857D, a wet noodle in the palm trees and a hammak (did I spell that right?), whilest being served pineapple cake by a beautiful skantly clad Wahini.....but then again, something tells me I am wrong about that....Is it just another term for "casual dx operating?'......ya know, no set schedule or band plan???.....Never really heard the term up until a few years ago, as the internet became an intregal part of Ham Radio......What say you?...Holiday Style.....the definition....I am interested in being educated after all these years.....

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I'd say that's rare enough....small territory with many a ham radio impedance......Well done Bill....savor it..and I don't blame you for being aggrivated over some moron all of a sudden barging in on your qso....even if it wasn't intentional....that was me last week with those mouthy KC cops on top of Z81X...again, nobody listens before they transmit...same old song...I only hope I some day can complete the continent and get Monaco in the book too......and without any intrusions be they accidental or not...

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See....I told ya!......May the Schwartz (and Monaco) be with you!...... ......

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LOL....You are funny!.... ......for some of us, Monaco is not a dime a dozen.....I have never heard a station out of Monaco in my years of dxing.....and if I have, it was probably so weak, that they were unworkable.....the closest I came to even sniffing Monaco was when some fraudulent Obi Wan Jabroni with a French call tacked on a 3A/ to his call sign, and said he was in Monaco, which later turned out to not be the case...In finding that out, I was ready to chuck my radio across the room, I was soooo POed.....Sorry, man, but I can understand Bill's angst.....Monaco is NOT the garden variety you say it is for some of us......

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Bill, like I said...send an e-mail to the dude and explain what happened....my guess is he will respond with a "no problem, you are in the log..."......

I'd send him an e-mail to verify, Bill....and explain the situation......I am sure your qso is good.....I've had many a qso broken in a similar fashion using both cw and ssb thinking they were foojed forever, but still got into their log and got a QSL out of them.....do that, and see if you get a reply, and let us know what happens......

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Nope....nothing here.....Jeez...I thought you were going to give us a glimmer of hope!....But I guess not...

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You have a summertime???. ........Lucky you!....at the time of this writing, 51 degrees F in sw PA.... .....I will have the spaceheater on in the shack tonight....

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Geno...Listened for them...Conditions sucked....could not hear them....broken hearted once again....but yes, I am used to it.....

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Yep....Using RTTY....I don't do RTTY

Any of you guys know what his operating schedule is like for CW or SSB???.....I have been yearning for and Iraq qso since the friggin gulf war....

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