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I have been chasing DX since I worked over 90 countries as a Novice (remember the 2-year, non-renewable license?). I am at the top of the DXCC Honor Roll. Here is my all-time needed list for CW and Phone. P5/North Korea is confirmed on RTTY but no other mode [yet].
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I also have earned the following DXCC awards (totals as January 2022):
Band/Mode Confirmed Mixed 354 Phone 352 CW 351 Digital 324 6m 81 10m 333 12m 322 15m 344 17m 338 20m 351 30m 322 40m 336 80m 283 160m 104
We bought our first house in August, 1997 and on October 1, 1997 I put up a G5RV dipole about 35 feet (10 meters) high and worked my first DX from the new QTH (got K7K on Kure the very next morning). As of May 2007, I have worked 333 (mixed) countries, 330 (phone) countries and 327 (CW) countries. I also achieved WAZ on CW, SSB, RTTY, 40-10M, and 35 zones on 80M. Of countries that had been on, I have missed only FR/Glorioso and ZS8/Marion I. Had I worked and confirmed those two, I would have made the DXCC Honor Roll in just 5 years! Here is the list of DXCC entities I did not work before moving to Colorado:
- FR Glorioso
- KP1 Navassa
- VK0 Heard
- ZS8 Prince Edward & Marion
To see my all-time DXCC standings, look here.
I made my first RTTY QSOs in February 1999 during the CQ WPX contest, working my first 43 countries. I'm using MMTTY software for day-to-day DXing, and WriteLog for contesting.
We moved to Brighton, CO in June 2007. I got back on the air in August, 2008. I have worked a little over 300 DXCC entities since then, running only 100W to either a Hy-Gain AV-640 multi-band vertical or a half-size G5RV antenna in the attic. My current DXCC listing is HERE.
At the New England DXCC Convention in October, 1995, I spoke about the Internet as it applies to DXing. While working on the presentation, I wondered how many DXCC countries have amateur radio operators who are also on the Internet. At that time, I had collected Internet E-mail addresses from about 80 DXCC countries. The Internet DXCC List total was up to 194 countries before I stopped working on it in July, 1997.