Thanks, Dave. I don't get to many grids, but I enjoy it when I do get to a new place.
The most active ground-based rovers like KG5CCI, AC0RA, W5PFG, KA4H, and WD9EWK save a lot of time by using LoTW and not having to fill out paper cards for every person they work!
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:32 PM, David Jaeger yogiwn9q@gmail.com wrote:
Hello to all, Over the past decades I have accumulated a stack of QSL cards covering satellite QSOs dating back to the early Oscars and RS12/13 days. I never got around to applying for the VUCC award or any others associated with working the birds. Last year I made the decision that when I hit 100 satellite LOTW grids I would apply for the VUCC sat award the easy way electronically. Two weeks ago I checked my total online and found out that I was at 91 grids. At that time I figured that at the rate I am going it would be in 2016 before I ever hit 100. Then along came Wyatt AC0RA as W0N with his roving grid expedition and I picked up 12 new grids and they were all uploaded and confirmed by Monday afternoon. A few more grids were picked up from other stations in the last two weeks and yesterday I applied for my LOTW VUCC for 107 grids. Thanks Wyatt and all the others that uploaded their logs. Now for the trivia part of this post. Rovers made up a large part of my LOTW log. Those that uploaded multiple grids for my award were as follows:
KG5CCI - 14 grids, AC0RA (W0N) - 13 grids, WD9EWK - 8 grids W5PFG - 5 grids, N8HM - 3 grids, KX9X - 3 grids, WA7HQD - 3 grids, K8YSE - 2 grids, KA4H - 2 grids, N6UA - 2 grids, VE3NKL - 2 grids
That is 57 grids out of 107 total. In that stack of cards that I have yet to turn in for credit are additional grid confirmations from some of those listed above. My best example is my QSL from KF9PL/6Y5 (now KX9X) from 5/27/94.
So thanks again to all those that upload to LOTW for helping with my VUCC...
73, Dave WN9Q
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