Hi, the Call is NA1DX. I live east of Washington, D.C. and south of Annapolis, MD.
I got back into amateur radio in January of 2013. Except for field day, I had been mostly off the air since 2002. The Explorers Radio Club (NA3DX) has been active for field day since 2008. We have been operating QRP Battery. So, when I started operating, I decided I would start QRP. I purchased an ICOM 703 since it had a built in tuner and a fairly good receiver. Immediately, I was amazed at the DX I could work with a smiple OCF Buckmaster wire antenna.
I started doing radio sport a bit, with ARRL DX SSB Contest. My CW skills were a bit stale.
I soon sold my ICOM 706MKII and got an Elecraft K3/10 for my 50th birthday. I operated QRP for the SSB WPC and won my category. I had not done WPX since 2001.
Then I sold the ICOM 703 and got an Elecraft KX3 for my trip to Aruba. In Aruba I took a Buddipole and the KX3 and operated QRP during our vacation. I casually mode some 200+ contacts as P40DE.
When I got home, I started focusing more on my CW setup. This past fall I did ARRL SS both SSB and CW and CQ DX SSB and CW.
This year operating QRP, I completed DXCC QRP, as well as wrapped up DXCC for Mixed, Phone, 10m, 15m, and 20m. I wrapped up WAS for Mixed and Phone as well. About 50% of the contacts were LoTW contacts that became validated when I uploaded 1998-2001 contest logs. The rest were mostly QRP contacts from this year.
Now I am working on DXCC for 40m, 80m, and CW, as well as, WAS CW.
Please feel free to email me at
na1dx@arrl.net if you want to setup a schedule.
73, Doug, NA1DX
