I didn’t focus much on DXing in 2023, but I fill in a few band-points for the DXCC Challenge and added a couple of ATNOs.  I’ve got a long way to go for the Honor Roll, with only 278 countries confirmed.  And it seems like getting to 2,000 band-points for DXCC Challenge is a goal too far.  But we shall see.

As for WAS, 9-band and Triple Play were completed a long time ago, except for 6m and Satellite, which both stand at 38 states confirmed.

Yesterday and today I spent some time checking the bands out on FT8, which I haven’t been using often this year.  I did pick up a few new countries on 12 meters, as well as a ATNO (Uganda), my first since Crozet FT8WW this past January.

Today I noticed that T2C was on the air on 21 MHz FT8.  I checked their website and discovered they were running MSHV FT8.  I downloaded the software and configured it as quickly as I could, then saw them responding.  I managed to work them, which I think was my first QSO using MSHV.  I don’t have the logging working yet, so I manually entered it into DXKeeper. In any event this was a new band and mode for me, so thanks to the T2C Operators!