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Monday, April 15, 2024

200 DXCC on 60m

 I checked clublog today and discovered I reached 200 DXCC worked on 60m...





Remember the first day we were allowed on 60m here in the Netherlands? That was on December 3rd 2015. Read my blogpost here: https://pe4bas.blogspot.com/2015/12/first-day-5-mhz-in-netherlands.html. First QSOs were made with JT65A, can you imagine that was the most populair digimode at that time.

The most unusual contact made on 60m was with PH9HB/AM. A contact that was legal in 2015 but with the new regulations became illigal and so will never happen again. Read here: https://pe4bas.blogspot.com/2015/12/airplane-on-60m.html

It is incredibe I've contacted 200 DXCC on 60m in about 8 years. If you find that a lot, well I'm not even close to others that reached over 250 DXCC on 60m. I wonder how? Because 60m is not legal in a lot of DXCC. Even I can not guarantee I made 100% legal QSOs with all 200 DXCC...

Above the map with my contacts, all 2500+. Used modes CW, SSB, JT65, JT9, FT8, FT4.


5 comments:

  1. Good morning Bas, well I can say for sure that 60m has been very good to you!
    73,
    Mike
    VE9KK

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  2. Absolutely Mike, but rule number one is that you have to be there to work the DX! 73, Bas

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  3. Congratulations! I'm only at half the number, but I wonder what kind of antenna you are using for 60 m?

    Sverre/LA3ZA

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  4. Hello Sverre, the main antenna for 80/60/40 and 30m is my 2x22m inverted-V doublet. Apex at about 12m agl. 73, Bas

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  5. Gefeliciteerd. Ja, die /AM Airborne Mobile is een interessante :-)

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Thanks for your comment. Bedankt voor je reactie. 73, Bas