During this weekends CQ WW SSB contest going on (I’ll write about that later), I received an email from W7PN (“Skip”) in Wyoming on Sunday morning. Skip is one of the operators I emailed last week looking for someone in Wyoming to have a RTTY contact with. Wyoming was the last state I needed for WAS (Worked All States) His email said if I was around around to go to 20m and see if we can make a contact.

I was in the middle of looking for QSOs on SSB within N1MM so I fired up MMTTY and went to the frequency he suggested. I called CQ a few times before realizing as I rushed to get to RTTY going that I didn’t have my SignaLink on. Powered up the SignaLink interface and called CQ a few more times. Had a DM* station contact me but I told him that I was waiting for someone. A couple of calls later and Skip came back to me for the QSO. Had perfect copy on him. We exchanged a signal report and I probably thanked him half a dozen times before ending the QSO. After Skip uploads his log to LOTW it should show I have all states confirmed in Basic WAS (any mode/any band) and RTTY WAS. I’ll put in for those awards once he’s done.

Many thanks to WP7N for going all out in contacting me and helping me get my first ARRL award!

73,
K2DSL