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<\/a>Panoramic image of the CARC shack during the CQ WPX RTTY contest, made by Jim AB5JK. Warning, click at your own risk: it’s HUGE!! Don’t blame me!<\/p><\/div>\n
The unshaven, balding dude to the left is NOT<\/strong> the one who did all the work.<\/p>\n No, our mighty president did all the work, and what a magnificent job it was!! After a long day at work on Friday and a sleepless night on Sunday he simply told me “have to get more QSOs in the log<\/strong>“, and went back to the shack. With sleepy eyes and the help of about 2 gallons of strong coffee he pushed the total to 539 QSOs, good for 247,086 points. Absolutely fabulous!!<\/a><\/p>\n CQ WPX RTTY 2014 claimed score<\/p><\/div>\n Thanks to all of that hard work Jason logged half a dozen new DXCC entities and several new states on various bands. Most of which have been confirmed via the Logbook of The World already. I wonder which award is going to be next: the basic DXCC, or the 5 band WAS?<\/p>\n WAS award totals as of February 18, 2014<\/p><\/div>\n We’re still missing a few states on 80 meters; but Jim AB5JK is working hard on that B-I-G<\/strong> 40\/80 meters dipole so we should be able to work those missing states in no time at all!<\/p>\n DXCC award totals as of February 18, 2014<\/p><\/div>\n And the DXCC totals you see above (58) are off by one; because we have one DXCC entity that was confirmed by a paper card. So the real total is 59. Only 41 left to go!<\/p>\n And yes, mister president: congratulations, you are now a confirmed contest addict! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s behind us now; but some things remain unsaid. But first: here’s a photo that Jim AB5JK made, testing out the panoramic feature on his camera phone (or phone camera?): The unshaven, balding dude to the left is NOT the … Continue reading <\/a><\/a><\/a>