[LCC] W5WZ's most wanted DXCC list

Wed Dec 23 14:14:32 CST 2020

 I was 14 years old when I received my Novice license on January 7, 1972. I was WN9IVC in Indianapolis. My dad had his General license and a Hallicrafters transmitter and receiver. But back then Novices could only use crystal controlled radios so I got to use his Heathkit HW-16 and a handful of crystals. You would find someone calling CQ then insert the crystal that was closet in frequency and then call the other station. If you called CQ, you would then tune up and down to find stations calling. It actually worked well.
My first memorable DX contact was working KH6GGX on 15 meter CW on 4/17/72 at 1815Z.
In January 1974 I upgraded to General after Dad drove me up to Chicago to take the FCC exam. I became WB9IVC. Once I was able to use the VFO in the Hallicrafters, my DX interest grew. I was adopted by the Indy DXers when I was 16 years old. In 1975 I borrowed one the the member's station and placed 10th in the USA and first place in W9-land in the WAE CW Contest. I still have the certificate. It can be seen here:
1975 WAEDC CW Contest – AA5AU

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After graduating from technical school in 1977, I spent two years living and working in Iceland but I was not able to legally get on the air.
In 1979 I moved to Louisiana when I took a job through the mail to work communications offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. I fell in love with Louisiana, especially when one of my co-workers took me camping and duck hunting in the marsh out of Venice (I am an Eagle boy scout and loved to camp). I became an avid saltwater fisherman and duck hunter.

My first RTTY contact came in 1983 when Dad supplied me with a homebrew circuit board for a RTTY terminal unit (TU). I built the board into a metal box with a power supply, audio input and output for AFSK and a serial connection to my Heathkit H-89 computer. I ran a homebrew program that someone had written for the H89. The box had two red LEDs, one for Mark and one for Space. When I tuned upon a RTTY signal for the first time, it was magical how the LEDs started flashing and text started scrolling across the H-89's screen. I immediately fell in love with RTTY. It became my favorite mode but I still love CW too.
On July 8, 1987 I became AA5AU after successfully passing both the Advanced and Extra class examinations at the Lafayette Hamfest that year.
I guess you could say the rest is history!
73, Don AA5AU
    On Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 09:00:06 AM CST, marsh at ka5m.net <marsh at ka5m.net> wrote:  

Don AA5AU has 354 Total (Current plus Deleted) DXCC Entities confirmed, and DXCC #1 - 340 of 340 Current DXCC Entities Confirmed. Congrats Don!

73,

Marsh, KA5M

From: LCC <lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org> On Behalf Of Don AA5AU
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 8:35 AM
To: LCC <lcc at louisianacontestclub.org>
Subject: Re: [LCC] W5WZ's most wanted DXCC list

Scott, I'm not sure if you have ventured into FT8 yet, but a few of these have been active on that mode - 5Z, AP, 4S, 9V, 9M2, & TR.

TR8CA is active. I worked him recently 12/14 at 0530Z on 40 meter FT8.

5Z4VJ is also active. He is G3AB. I worked him on 11/22 on 12 meter FT8. He works there. I've worked him on other bands as well.

AP2TN is active. He was on 17 meter FT8 today.

I worked 4S7AB on 40 meter FT8 on 12/7 on 40 meter FT8 at 1219Z. I've seen him on 40 meters this week in the morning time before I go to work.

9M2TO was on 20 meter FT8 this morning about an hour ago. He's been worked from the USA in the evening times although I haven't decoded him.

I saw others working a 9V last night on 20 meter FT8 just past our sunset but I don't remember the callsign.

There's been spotty activity from T5 but I haven't seen anything lately.

The others are going to be hard. Most will need a DXpedition.

I could use BS7H on RTTY and P5 on CW but that's not going to happen!

73, Don AA5AU

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 07:52:26 AM CST, <w5wz at w5wz.com> wrote: 

Merry Christmas!

Just for fun, here is my list of 66 needed DXCC entities (any band and 

mode), sorted by its Most-Wanted rank from ClubLog.

If you happen to see a valid spot or hear one of these DXCCs, please 

reach out to me directly by text or phone call 318-355-2220

Prefix    Most-Wanted Ranking    DXCC

P5    1    DPRK (NORTH KOREA)

FT5/W    2    CROZET ISLAND

BS7H    3    SCARBOROUGH REEF

3Y/B    4    BOUVET ISLAND

BV9P    5    PRATAS ISLAND

FT/G    6    GLORIOSO ISLAND

FT5/X    7    KERGUELEN ISLAND

ZS8    8    PRINCE EDWARD & MARION ISLANDS

SV/A    9    MOUNT ATHOS

YK    10    SYRIA

CE0X    11    SAN FELIX ISLAND

EZ    12    TURKMENISTAN

VK0M    13    MACQUARIE ISLAND

KH7K    14    KURE ISLAND

3Y/P    15    PETER 1 ISLAND

KH3    16    JOHNSTON ISLAND

YV0    17    AVES ISLAND

XZ    20    MYANMAR

AP    21    PAKISTAN

S2    22    BANGLADESH

VU4    25    ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS

VU7    26    LAKSHADWEEP ISLANDS

PY0S    27    SAINT PETER AND PAUL ROCKS

9N    28    NEPAL

A5    32    BHUTAN

FT/J    33    JUAN DE NOVA, EUROPA

ZL9    35    NEW ZEALAND SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS

VK9C    36    COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS

XX9    37    MACAO

XU    38    CAMBODIA

T5    40    SOMALIA

3A    41    MONACO

5A    42    LIBYA

ZD9    46    TRISTAN DA CUNHA & GOUGH

YI    50    IRAQ

ET    52    ETHIOPIA

VK9W    54    WILLIS ISLAND

KP5    55    DESECHEO ISLAND

XW    61    LAOS

R1F    63    FRANZ JOSEF LAND

FT5Z    66    AMSTERDAM & SAINT PAUL ISLANDS

4S    68    SRI LANKA

H40    70    TEMOTU PROVINCE

KH9    72    WAKE ISLAND

T33    73    BANABA ISLAND

VQ9    78    CHAGOS ISLANDS

EY    83    TAJIKISTAN

UJ    84    UZBEKISTAN

HK0/M    86    MALPELO ISLAND

9V    87    SINGAPORE

9M2    94    WEST MALAYSIA

TJ    107    CAMEROON

4U1ITU    108    ITU HQ

7Q    109    MALAWI

Z2    110    ZIMBABWE

FO/C    112    CLIPPERTON ISLAND

T8    118    PALAU

CY0    125    SABLE ISLAND

7P    130    LESOTHO

EK    135    ARMENIA

3XA    146    GUINEA

TR    153    GABON

KH8    164    SWAINS ISLAND

5Z    172    KENYA

3D2    202    ROTUMA

VP8    220    SOUTH ORKNEY ISLANDS

-end of list

--Scott, W5WZ

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