Re: [IRCA] Milestone: 2K!

["Ira Elbert New, III" <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Congratulations!!!!!

I think I'm at 300 or so from here in Watkinsville. I've been keeping 
records since 2003. I hope I never move and have to start over again.

Again...congratulations. And perhaps this will spur me to count my stations!

On 23 Sep 2006 at 16:02, Barry McLarnon wrote:
>
> > I've been sitting at 1999 AM stations logged for the last week or two,
> > anticipating the time when something would pop up to push me up to 2000, 
>a
> > longtime goal.  This happened last night, but I didn't get much time to
> > savour the moment, as a flurry of Spanish loggings quickly pushed me up 
>to
> > 2004!
> >
> > Anyway, I'm happy to get there, especially with rapidly rising local 
>noise
> > levels and the coming of IBOC leading to greatly diminished DX 
>prospects.
> > I've been AM DXing since the beginning of 1998 (all from the same 
>location
in
> > Ottawa ON), so I missed out on the glory years of silent periods and the
> > like.  Due to space restrictions, I also haven't used anything bigger 
>than a
> > 66 ft dipole for an antenna.  My log shows a total of 1532 US stations 
>in 47
> > states plus DC, 171 Canadian stations in 10 provinces, and 298 stations 
>in
58
> > other countries (that only adds up to 2001 stations, so it seems I've 
>missed
> > a few in this breakdown).  For the record, I don't count callsign 
>changes in
> > my totals.  I also don't collect veries, but I have a pretty big 
>collection
> > of recordings!
> >
> > Barry

Bert New
Watkinsville, Georgia
Proudly Serving You Since 1964!


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