Jamaica confirmed (6Y8XF)

Originally posted on 'The wet string chronicles' in April 2009.

Nigel (G3TXF) made 2,100 CW QSOs operating as 6Y8XF from Montego Bay in Jamaica for the 2009 Commonwealth Contest. One of those, on 40m, was me.

I’d worked Jamaica many times previously but I was still waiting for a confirmed contact. I know Nigel is a serious QSLer so I was pleased to get him in the log and even more pleased when his QSL card dropped onto the mat this morning.

Thanks to Nigel Jamaica is now confirmed, this despite my earlier moans (see March 15th) regarding my poor antenna setup and performance. 

It’s fair to say that the antennas at the other end more than made up for my bit of wet string - check out Nigel’s excellent site at http://www.g3txf.com where he has a write-up of his Jamaican trip and some nice pictures of the station he was using.

I also had a QSL card this week from PJ5NA (James) on Sint Eustatius Island in the Dutch Antilles. I was really pleased about this one because it was a very difficult 30m CW contact on a very noisy band. But it seems I got him and it’s one more to the confirmed total - now running at 165 worked, 144 confirmed (by QSL card), 148 total confirmed (I also use ARRL’s Logbook of The World where my total stands at 105 confirmed).