I haven't spent much time in the shack lately. I've been missing HF radio pretty bad. I decided to get in the shack after work and play radio for a bit. I don't consider myself a serious DXer, however I do have a tendency to always check FT8 and the DX cluster for new ones before doing anything else. Lately the conditions have been less than desirable. I struggled on Easter Sunday for 1.5 hours trying to work Indonesia on both FT8 and phone with no success. To me, it seems that the conditions are favorable only one way. I can hear or decode some good DX, but I haven't been able to make contact.
Anyway, I was decoding Egypt on 20m FT8! I called many times. I called on his frequency. I called on split. I called off frequency while he was working someone else. I replied to his CQ call. I never got a response from him. While I was on the chase, I did see Z36W in Macedonia decode in deep purple (which is a new country).
I tried giving Z36W a call, but couldn't seem to get the timing right. I was just about to give up when all of the sudden, he started giving me a signal report. We got stuck trying to exchange the reports, but eventually we were able to complete the QSO and I got a new one in the log!
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| KG4LST to Z36W |
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a country in the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in September 1991 under the name Republic of Macedonia. A landlocked country, North Macedonia has borders with Kosovo to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south, and Albania to the west.
73 and good DX de KG4LST sk
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