The cold season is arriving in Texas, which will inevitably cause a cutback in my operating. All my operation is from the truck, and gasoline is too expensive to run the engine to heat the truck, even when I am using AC power for the radio and antenna.
I will still operate “mobile in motion” from the truck, but that is only a fraction of the available time.
Meanwhile, I am up to 82 DXCC entities confirmed but stuck at 45 states, since Kentucky and West Virginia came in. I had hoped to finish basic DXCC and basic WAS before winter curtailed the operating, but it looks like that will be difficult.
New York and Vermont were worked during Sweepstakes, and the stations are LOTW users, so there’s still hope that they will upload some logs and get in the books. That will leave Arkansas, Mississippi, and Nebraska to finish all 50.
I will keep trying, you never know what might happen.
Here’s something I’m happy about:
I think I will print up a card and get it in the mail to Germany for this one.
Update: As I expected, within 30 minutes of posting this, one of the SS stations confirmed New York. So that’s 46 states, 4 to go.





