Current DX Goals

Well, it is too hot to go do POTA activations and it is summer, so the bands are kind of meh.  But it seems that 17m and 30m are pretty sweet spots during the late evening hours and (very) early morning hours.  So, I will be focusing on both of them to get the numbers up for DXCC on both of those bands.

As I post this 30m is officially at 104 worked / 86 confirmed, with one of the unconfirmed a deleted entity, so the actual worked number is 103.  That leaves 17 that need to be confirmed, but of those 2 of them were worked decades ago.  And one of the confirmed is via a paper QSL - and while I could submit that, it would drive up the cost of this award.  Bottom line is that I have just enough on this band to get the 30m DXCC Award.  I really need a couple more new ones on here!

On 17m the official numbers are at 93 worked / 80 confirmed.  On this band, all are potentially confirmable.  But that still leaves me with a deficit of needing at a minimum of 7 more entities on this band.  

On 12m, the numbers are 111 worked / 97 confirmed.  For 12m there are several OQRS contacts that I can submit for to go well over the needed 100 for the DXCC award on 12m.  But I would rather get "free" confirmations on LotW - so I will wait it out for a couple more months.

Realistically, I need around 110 worked on each of the WARC bands to be within the margin of error to get the LotW QSL's.  I feel pretty confident that I will make it I want to do a major DXCC submission around Thanksgiving, if at all possible, with 30m, 17m, and 12m all being submitted at the same time.