Good to hear, Ray.
I got WAS very quickly. Like in the first year of having my ticket. And DXCC Certificates in a few categories...
Phone 150
Digital 100
10m 100
15m 150
20m 150
CW 150
Mixed 200
Although LOTW shows me at over 250 Mixed if I wanted to apply for the sticker. And it looks like the rest of them go up a step or two also. I feel for ya with the antenna restrictions. When we were looking for a house the wife knew I needed room for a tower. I dabbled with FT8 a few months back, when I was dealing with shoulder surgery.
I haven't been on the air much with propagation being so bad but I hope to get back on soon. I did have to go through my Drake L-4B Amp a couple of months ago and clean up all the contacts as it wasn't working as it should. After a day of cleaning and putting it to use she warms up the shack nicely once again. I need to key it up more often to keep it working well. Those old tubes are from the 80s and still putting out 80 to 85% so I can't complain. But I do have a backup set of Used Tubes if I even need them. New ones are getting close to 400 bucks each nowadays.
I got WAS very quickly. Like in the first year of having my ticket. And DXCC Certificates in a few categories...
Phone 150
Digital 100
10m 100
15m 150
20m 150
CW 150
Mixed 200
Although LOTW shows me at over 250 Mixed if I wanted to apply for the sticker. And it looks like the rest of them go up a step or two also. I feel for ya with the antenna restrictions. When we were looking for a house the wife knew I needed room for a tower. I dabbled with FT8 a few months back, when I was dealing with shoulder surgery.
I haven't been on the air much with propagation being so bad but I hope to get back on soon. I did have to go through my Drake L-4B Amp a couple of months ago and clean up all the contacts as it wasn't working as it should. After a day of cleaning and putting it to use she warms up the shack nicely once again. I need to key it up more often to keep it working well. Those old tubes are from the 80s and still putting out 80 to 85% so I can't complain. But I do have a backup set of Used Tubes if I even need them. New ones are getting close to 400 bucks each nowadays.