Re: [IRCA] [ultralightdx] WDEV DX test missed in Newfoundland earlier - new catch later instead

[Robert Ross <va3sw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well Allen...there isn't much I can say that would do this Logging the Justice it deserves!!!  Paraguay is a Phenomenal Catch ...I don't care "where" the DXer is Located!!! 100 Countries on a ULR Receiver is something NONE of us dreamed of back in 2008!! Many Dxers spend their entire DX Careers using Communication Receivers and Big Fancy Antennas..and never get anywhere near 100 Countries.....Myself included!! 

The longer we continue in the ULR subculture of the DXing hobby...the more I am convinced that the sky is the limit, given the right location and right time....and of course the right Dxer!! You my friend have found the recipe for success using ULR's!! I shudder to think what we could have done if we had been using ULRs back in the Earlier Days of BCB Dxing??!

I have said it many times...."You are the ULR KIng", and that title was "Earned" by you for your dedication and perseverance in digging out the tough ones!!

Congratulations on this historic Milestone, one I doubt will be duplicated by anyone on the ULR List...in the near or distant future!!

I'm sure Gary will drum you up a Special Award , and I will crack open a nice Cold Labatts Blue to celebrate the occasion !!

You are truly an inspiration to me and the ULR Hobby as a whole!! Keep up the great work, and I'm sure there's a few more countries out there you can find!!

73...ROB VA3SW (For myself and the ULR Awards Committee)

Robert S. Ross
London, Ontario CANADA

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On 2013-08-17, at 8:59 AM, Allen wrote:

> Hello To All,
> 
> The past five years have provided yours truly with a unique opportunity in an already much enjoyed hobby for the past forty five years. I speak of the first part of 2008, when in January of that year I had posted some medium wave loggings of what I had been hearing from here in Newfoundland on a newly aquired pocket sized Ultralight radio. 
> 
> Following that posting I was asked by John Bryant , Gary DeBock, Robert Ross and others if I would like to share any of my future loggings with their newly formed Ultralight DX group membership. 
> 
> My ocean side listening spot has allowed me to hear distant countries and locales that most people can only dream of hearing and to be able to do this using ultralight radios has only sweetened the experience and thrill of hearing faraway places by radio even more. 
> 
> As many of you know, Newfoundland is a prime DX location for hearing distant stations from many foreign lands. For a medium wave DXer who began his hobby at the age of 13 on the prairies of Western Canada a move to Newfoundland in later years has become a dream come true. 
> 
> Because of that move and the people mentioned above from the Ultralight DX group who convinced me to join in the fun I would like to now present the log from earlier this morning of my 100 th country heard using an Ultralight radio. 
> 
> This DX catch is dedicated to our Ultralight DX comrades, the late John Bryant and Kirk Allen 
> 
> 920 khz - PARAGUAY - Radio Nacional Del Paraguay ZP1 Asuncion 6:30 UTC 8/17/13 w/ Spanish talk, lite snippet of intrumental flute music , ID's " La Radio Publica " , several mentions of Asuncion 
> (signal came out on top for a few moments from a mix previously with CKNX Ontario and WHYY Rhode Island.) // website feed online
> 
> Ultralight Station # 1106 ULR Latin Station # 234 Ultralight Country # 100
> 
> Receiver: Sony SRF-M37W barefoot 
> 
> By the way I missed /slept through the DX test from WDEV Vermont earlier this morning.
> 
> Good DX
> 
> Allen Willie
> Bristol's Hope, Newfoundland
> 47:43N 53:11W 
> 
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