I like wallpaper, but finding the cards to verify
would be very difficult. They are everywhere.

I have all but 4U1V, Bear Is, and of course...Monk Apollo.

I have to keep an ear out for him.
The Maldives would be an ATNO.

Hi Tor,
Thanx for all the contest Q's...

I could not tell you if it was LP or SP. I was using a 4BTV at the time.
I have heard that Monaco has a LARGE mountain or series
of mountains to the west of the Principality making
SP to the US difficult. Don't know if that is correct or not,
as I read it in the internet, and you know how RELIABLE
internet data is.

But I can state, that was the first time I have heard anyone from Monaco
loud enough to try and call them. And it all worked out.

Not whining at all...Just an expression of sheer FRUSTRATION !
After 5 years+ of chasing Monaco, I finally hear someone, they answer
and someonme fires up and potentially BUSTS the Q.

But the point is moot.
I already have the LoTW confirmation.

With my limited facilities, I have to make the MOST
of every new DXCC (new to me) I can't afford to lose one due to a busted Q, busted by someone else.

Obi Wan Jabroni 

I can't quit laughing Vince.

Sorry Ryan, but in the 5 years I have been chasing Monaco,
this is the FIRST time I have had a decent signal from there.
I see stations from Monaco posted on DX Summit all the time,
but I can NEVER hear them.
This time was different.

They are NOT a dime a dozen for me.

I'm still doin the happy dance.

He is a LoTW user too, that makes things even better,
but I will probably send for a hard card this time.

I just checked Franco's clublog....


LIGHT the FIREWORKS !!!!!
STRIKE up the BAND !!!!!
CRACK OPEN the CHAMPAGNE !!!!!

He logged the Q.

Monaco IN MY LOG !!!!
DXCC # 267

One left to complete Europe...Monk Apollo

It got YOU to read.....eh?

I have been chasing Monaco for a LONG time.

A short while ago, I saw 3A2MW on 15m JT-65 calling CQ.
I answered him, and he sent back a signal report to me...no problem.
I sent back my report to him, when it was his turn to reply,
SOME DORK from CHILE decided to call CQ 5 cycles
LOWER than my contact.

Since I have no idea IF he replied, I cannot count Monaco
as an ATNO.

DAMNIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here we (I) go again...

Another (what should be) relatively easy one that I never heard.

I worked ZL & VK over the weekend in the Volta RTTY
contest easily, but NO Norfolk.

From the map programs I have, Norfolk sits between
ZL & VK so it should have been easy.....

NOT !

This is just conjecture, but I suspect he
was operatingh from the New Zealand 1st call district.

Just like your /4 and /3

I copied the call as ZL3TE/1
I got him at 0621z this morning
in the Volta RTTY contest on 20m.

Condx have been better here the last few days.

Made 6-8 JT-65 Q's today
and Oman, Asiatic Turkey & Ecuador on 20m CW just a while ago.

But they could ALWAYS be BETTER !

Vince...

Keep your DAY job !
No future in music.

 

Not necessarily so.

I worked a SLIM at the same time VU4PB was active on Andaman & Nicobar
Islands. Problem was, IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE IDing AS VU4PB.
That particular DXPedition was widely publicized.
That was back on March 25, 2011 on 20m CW.

in addition

I worked a station IDing as SV2ASP/A from Mt Athos.
Problem was, it was NOT Monk Apollo.
That was on 15m rtty Sept 30, 2011.
Monk Apollo had been spotted a bunch of times both BEFORE
the SLIM and AFTER the SLIM on 15m rtty.
Monk Apollo is the ONLY operator on Mt Athos and is difficult to snag.
He appears from time to time, sometimes months in between appearances.