I wouldn't bother. Just work another one. There are a few on somewhat regularly. I worked a half dozen last year, mostly in contests, without much bother.

No fecaovolcanic activity this year but I did see a fleet of PoopVac™ trucks convoy into the flea market area late Friday, and there was one on emergency standby on Saturday just in case. THAR SHE BLOWS!!!!!

I have a three-pronged solution. I select the nicest looking card for each DXCC entity I have confirmed--something representative of the entity and has the entity's name clearly shown--and it goes in the album, in call-prefix order. Next step down from that are cards from interesting or rare entities, and all 160s. They go in the shoeboxes in entity order. Basically anything I've paid for. Bureau cards go in a different set of shoeboxes and are NOT sorted in any order. Whenever I get in a batch of bureau cards I enter them into the log as having been received on x-date, pull out any for rare or interesting entities (A5, BV, 160m). What's left goes into the big box with two elastics around it and a post-it indicating the received date. They go in deep storage and will probably ever be seen by human eyes again, but I don't have the heart to toss 'em.

I asked 3 times if they needed any checkers but they didn't have any applications pending. I did check a couple on Sunday (one VUCC and one DXCC+160) but that was in the space of about an hour or so just before closing.

Seconded!

Thanks, Paul, and I felt the same. Getting the opportunity to chat with fellow DXers and contesters is always the best part of Hamvention. I expressed this to Paul and others, but what I love to hear is the behind-the-scenes stuff associated with DXpeditions. Learned an awful lot last weekend and my respect for many of these ops is well deserved. The story behind how 7O6T came to be was the highlight of my visit.

As for new hardware, the only two things I found interesting was the CrankIR product from Steppir and the new receive antenna from Array Solutions, replacing the K9AY-designed loop that I have now. The CrankIR looks like a nice compact DXpedition/emergency/FD antenna and I wouldn't mind playing with it. I'd also like to see a video of how easy it is to setup, tear down and store. The Phased lowband loops from Array Solutions look to be a very significant improvement over the AYL-4 they sold previously and made me wish I had the $799 they're charging for it.

I also liked the Begali keys but, again, unless there's a lotto win in my future, that ain't happening.

Dave Patton from the League confirmed it's status last night at the DX dinner in Dayton as well. Not going anywhere. Unfortunately, for me! I was hoping to get one closer to HR with its deletion, damnit.

That's the single most confusing application form I've ever seen. I can't make heads or tails of exactly what they want entered where or how.

I believe these are the radios that will be showcased for the activation:
http://bit.ly/12y4PjD

Similar situation here. I have North on 10-80 but South only 10-40. Want 'em both on 160, damnit!

South Cooks are on all the time. One of the first Pacific DX entities I ever worked with 100W/wire in 2001, in fact. It's not really rare. Worked this op one call, low power.

Damn. Not surprised, though, and as I posted elsewhere, I feel this is the shape of things to come as fuel costs and regulatory issues price DXpeditions to rare locations out of the reach of small groups. Shame. Pushes any chance of Honor Roll out another year for me.

Well, speaking of solar activity, Ol' Sol belched out two X-class flares this morning. An X-1.7 and what now looks like a 2.8. Neither was earth-directed but the spot that's generating that activity should rotate around in a few days.

Congrats on the new one. An alpha should easily handle 1500W RTTY. See the Dayton display where they quite literally have a brick on a key all weekend long (running into a dummy load). I run my Ameritron in big RTTY pileups for hours, sometimes, trying to get a new one on Digital and it never complains either.

Razi also QSLs via LoTW, so that should be an easy one to get confirmed within a short period.

Fair enough, but how many of these places are anywhere near the top 100 or top 50? We'll just see how many more small operations to places everybody has in their logs every few years. I don't know about you, but how many more E5, FW, KH8S, T32 and VP6 bandfills do you need? Even E8, now? Sure there will be a smattering of big operations from rare entities from time to time, as opportunity presents itself and wealthy DXpeditioners get the urge to travel but I think Rich is right, that in a few years, it will cost upward of $2M to stage a voyage to a place like Peter I or Bouvet. I fear that the upcoming operations to Heard and Amsterdam will be the last ones for most of our lifetimes, and I'm hoping a group can put Crozet on the air in the next few years as well, before it, too, becomes a financial impossibility.

I can see a few African entities changing (easier becoming harder, harder becoming more frequent) as regional politics shift. I can also see SV/a going silent for an extremely long time if Monk Apollo leaves the airwaves.