It's catch up time....

Well, I started working on getting caught up on things. Processed the envelope of cards I got from the bureau this week. There were no new ones, but I was able to get a few more cards for the countries that I needed additional bands for. I also started getting the information that I need to get some cards made up for QSL requests that I have received since the VA QSO Party. With Allyson's cancer, I got behind and never got the opportunity to get caught up. Now, with this week off, I hope to get caught up. I also have about 2 pounds of cards still waiting for me at the bureau, but they need me to send them some more envelopes. I hope to do that on Monday so that I can get the cards here and see what else I need. I am trying to use LOTW as much as I can, but I do like having the paper cards also.

I also want to do a little radio also this week. I will look on the cluster to see if there are any good DXpeditions going on in some countries that I need. So, who knows, my totals may benefit from this time off.

I have 8 weeks of class coming up starting on January 18th. Then, I will just be waiting for graduation in May. So, my plans are to do some contesting and DXing on the weekends until I switch over to the dayshift in July. Of course, in Jully, there is the IARU HF World Championship that I did not get into this year.

I am really missing Larry, W3MGL. It is not the same talking to him on the phone every night and not seeing him once a week like I had when he was here. But, we are planning a road trip to visit him hopefully in the spring. Hr is trying to get back on the air, so hopefully we can get some contacts in our logs over the next few months.

Well, hopefully I will be able to do some more ham stuff over the next few months.