Things have been continuing in the N0PCL ham shack.
First, on the award front...
While I haven't submitted my official applications for the following awards, I have sufficient confirmations for the following:
- Worked All States (mixed band and mode, CW, phone, digital, Triple Play, and 40 meters.) I'm three states away from WAS on 20, too, needing only Maryland, Delaware, and Connecticut.
- DXCC (mixed band and mode, CW, and 20 Meters.) I've got 91 total countries on digital modes, and 86 on phone. And I've got 84 countries on 15 meters and 79 on 40 meters. So I'm getting there.
And, perhaps my biggest near-achievement is SOTA Goat status. I'm currently sitting at 999 points out of a necessary 1000. My conundrum there is that I've basically activated all the peaks in my local area this year, so I need to go further afield. I should be visiting my parents over the upcomin holiday season, so I may attempt an activation of Holy Hill (W9/WI-031) or one of the other "mountains" in southern or western Wisconsin. Holy Hill will put me at 1,001 activator points.
In other news, I've built an APRS fill-in digipeater and iGate at my home QTH. It doesn't get a huge amount of traffic--I'm mostly filling in APRS packets along a 25 mile stretch of I-95 between Fredericksburg and Woodbridge. I'll do a write-up on that in the near future. I used a rarely-touched FT-2900R, a TinyTrak4 from Byonics, and some free software. Pretty simple stuff.
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