Tag: qsl

  • The 10-10 International Net: A Niche Award Worth Knowing

    Part of our Getting On The Air guide. The Ten-Ten International Net is a club built entirely around one band, 10 meters, and if you have caught the 10 meter bug during a good solar cycle opening, it is one of the more fun and approachable niche communities in the hobby. What Ten-Ten Actually Is…

  • Worked All Continents (WAC): The Other Big Award

    Part of our Getting On The Air guide. Worked All Continents sits in an interesting spot between Worked All States and DXCC: harder to complete than WAS since it requires genuine international contacts, but far more achievable than full DXCC since you only need six confirmations, not over a hundred. What WAC Actually Requires The…

  • Worked All States (WAS): How to Track and Claim It

    Part of our Getting On The Air guide. Worked All States, usually just called WAS, is one of the most approachable awards in the hobby, and it is a genuinely satisfying long-term goal for anyone who operates HF regularly, without needing rare DX or contest-level effort to complete. What the Award Actually Requires WAS requires…

  • IOTA and County Hunting: Niche Award Programs Worth Knowing About

    DXCC gets most of the attention as the classic ham radio award chase, but it’s far from the only one. IOTA and County Hunting both offer a genuinely different kind of goal, one geographic, one domestic, and both worth knowing about even if DXCC isn’t your primary focus. IOTA: chasing islands, not just countries Islands…

  • GridTracker and the FTX-1: Logging FT8 Contacts Automatically

    How I connect GridTracker to the FTX-1 through WSJT-X so FT8 contacts get logged, mapped, and routed to QSL services without manual entry.

  • The “Pay to Confirm” Problem: DX Stations Charging for QSL Confirmations

    There is a growing frustration in the DX community over stations, mostly in rare or hard to reach entities, who ask for money before they will confirm a contact. Here is what is going on, and why it matters.

  • QSLing and Awards 101: Paper Cards, LoTW, eQSL, and DXCC

    A confirmed contact is only as good as the system that confirms it. Here is how paper QSLs, LoTW, and eQSL actually differ, and how awards like DXCC use them.

  • GridTracker and the IC-7300 Mark II: Logging FT8 Automatically

    How to connect GridTracker to the IC-7300 Mark II through WSJT-X so FT8 contacts get logged, mapped, and routed to QSL services without manual entry.

  • Setting Up WSJT-X, GridTracker, HRD, and TQSL: A Digital Station That Logs Itself

    How to install WSJT-X, Ham Radio Deluxe, GridTracker, and TQSL, and get them syncing so every FT8 contact logs itself and uploads to LoTW, QRZ, and PSK Reporter automatically.

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