13 January 2025

  Wow. Just wow! Today was a personal record for the number of ham contacts in a continuous run. 10 meters just kept delivering today. Once I set up my gear this morning I found N6HU calling CQ at a POTA park in California and figured that was a good sign for the band this morning. After a quick QSO I started calling CQ just after 2000z and was quickly spotted. Off to the races it went. East coast, west coast US. South American. Australia and New Zealand. Japan. A few European stations and many others. 

  I fell into a rhythm and just kept working. Before I knew it, it was almost lunch time. Close to 2400z my radio reset unexpectedly when I transmitted. I realized my battery was quickly dying after four hours of fun on the radio. I reduced power a bit and pulled in a few more calls before having to call it a day. 468 contacts today. If you did not realize, I run a paper log and then transpose my log to a Google spreadsheet and processing for QRZ, POTA, and finally LoTW. Today’s work resulted in another few hours of data entry. It was a full day effort.

  With the help of my lovely wife back home, we were able to get the new KH7AL/KH9 LoTW certificate loaded onto my home shack PC and a copy to my laptop here on Wake Island. As of this afternoon, I have uploaded all 3068 /KH9 QSOs to LoTW.

  Thank you to everyone for the contacts! 73, Allen