Just now worked KH6/ND0B on FT8. He's got a winter home there, so he'll be around for awhile.
Managed to get AK and HI confirmed on 60M for all 50 states. Wasn't difficult, just needed to stay up a bit later. I'm moving along now to working countries. Started on Jan 17 with only Albania and Navassa, and no states. Got 60 countries confirmed, but know the next 40 will be a lot harder.
https://www.k4hb.com/60M.htmlWith that "lazy text messaging" thing and JT Alert, it's a piece of cake. JT Alert is like a Blue Tick Coonhound, it will sniff 'em out and sound off when it finds what you're hunting for.
For working states, only need AK on 6M for all 550 slots.
https://www.k4hb.com/was.html Hopefully, with increasing sunspots, we'll have some F2 propagation on Magic Band this summer. With AK out of the way, all left for me is 2M, if I'll get that Yagi out of the box and put it in the air.
For working all states, saw a W1AW/4 station calling recently, and wondered what that was all about. ARRL did that in 2014, which was an opportunity to work all states on bands and modes, and all were uploaded to LoTW. The station was calling for VOTA. Thought what the heck is that, and looked it up. This may be of interest to those needing states, bands, and modes for Triple Play. Don't know if they'll cover the bands and modes like they did in 2014, but here it is...
https://vota.arrl.org/w1awPortable.phpOn topic for ET3AA...
So I worked ET3AA yesterday 1/28/23. The DXPedition ended a week earlier. Not sure if the contact was legit or not.
I guess it's a club station. So it's possible a local was on the air. Anybody got a clue how to verify that and possibly how to QSL, or was this just a slim?
You can verify and QSL via ClubLog:
https://clublog.org/logsearch/ET3AA
The last upload to ClubLog was Jan 25, around the time the stateside guys left. It appears the locals operated on 12M FT8 on the weekend of Jan 28 & 29. Maybe they'll stick around and be weekend warriors, we'll see. Hope they make use of ClubLog. Their starting date is 1994, but I have confirmed contacts in 2001 and 2011 that aren't in that log. Guess with a club station, some are good log keepers and some aren't.