Received an email about the Bouvet Island DXpedition in February 2026 from Rick Williams VE7TK. Here’s the Bouvet link.
He writes, “If I am fortunate enough to work them, that will be my #340 of the total of 340!! So here’s hoping!!”
Note Rick’s photo below. And he’s not going to Bouvet. He really, really wants this DX contact, though.
Good luck, Rick.
Like many other IHF members, I live in a condo, thereby limiting my ability to erect large antenna arrays. I live on the top floor of the building, and have managed to install a low-visibility short (14 foot) non-resonant vertical on the building’s roof, with a few radials spread out on the flat surface. I have an AH-730 automatic antenna tuner located at the base of the vertical, and run the cables down to my shack through one of the building’s air ducts. The radio is an IC-7300, putting out 100 watts. I had never entered a contest before 2024, and assumed that my “little pistol” station wouldn’t stand a chance against the “big gun” stations with their tall towers, stacked beams, kilowatts of power, and highly-skilled CW operators. However, when I joined IHF in early 2024, I noticed that many other club members were entering contests “just for the fun of it”, so I thought that I would give it a try. (For the whole story in Downloads, click here.)
The ARRL DX Contest SSB is great fun. I like to discover what exotic locations I’ve contacted.
I downloaded from LOTW to QRZ – I thought this contact was pretty cool. My first Galapagos Islands contact.
Any of the rest of you folks – What was your favorite contact?
73 Glenn