DX

• 2026-07-19 — Logged DL8YHR in Germany on 6m FT8 , off a tip from N5BO that the band was open. Transatlantic on six meters is the kind of opening worth dropping everything for.
• 2026-03-08 — DX to New Zealand and the Mariana Islands on 10m SSB: ZM4T (New Zealand, IOTA OC-036, grid RF80LF, ~7,780 mi) and KH0/KC0W (Mariana Islands, IOTA OC-086, grid QK25VF, ~7,672 mi).
• 2026-01-14 — Interview with Jamie Millington, M7JMU (UK) : a friendship that started with a beach-to-beach POTA contact — working from a vehicle in Fort Morgan while Jamie operated from a UK beach. Still in touch on X and Signal, watching for the right conditions to reach each other again.
• 2024-09-24 — First-ever 10 meter FM contact : worked K5BLS (DM09OL), 1,890 miles away.
• 2024-04-28 — Unexpected DX during a morning POTA activation at US-3711 (Weeks Bay): worked VK3YV in Australia (QF31au, 9,360.6 mi) on 20m SSB.