After making my first 10 contacts, I officially completed CWT #120 for 2024.

Completing CWT #120 was my last remaining goal for 2024.

• Hunt 1500+ POTA parks
• Do at least one activation with the Elecraft KH1 hand-held QRP rig
• Give a radio club presentation on solar power/batteries
• Compete in 120+ CWTs
• Wildcard (like finish the QDX or some other ham related project)

Now I have to put some thought into goals for 2025!

As of today, I have 1426 unique POTA parks confirmed.  Twenty days ago, the count was 1401, so I’m adding a scooch over 1 park a day.  So the end of September seems like when I might get my goal of 1500 completed.  And the CWT Gold Medal should wrap up by the end of October, which is when I should hit 120 (currently at 84, so 36 remain).  Fingers are crossed!

2024 is my fourth year of participating in CWT contests, and the gold medal (participating in at least 120 CWT contest for the year) arrived yesterday.

I had an ambitious set of goals for 2023:

• Teach a class (either Technician or CW Academy)
• Participate in 120+ CWTs for the CWops Gold Medal
• Build my QRP-Labs QDX Digital Transceiver
• Activate 10 new parks in CT or obtain award for hunting 1000 parks
• Obtain 50 States Parks on the Air award

I completed four of the five, only failing to build the QDX transceiver.  It sits on my desk and perhaps will come to life in 2024.  I did complete 145 CWTs (actually 146 but I forgot to submit a log for one of them).  I also taught a Technician class in the spring of 2023.  For POTA I did get the WAS award, and hunted more than 1000 parks.

For 2024, I think I’m going to dial things back a bit, but here we go:

• Hunt 1500+ POTA parks
• Do at least one activation with the Elecraft KH1 hand-held QRP rig
• Give a radio club presentation on solar power/batteries
• Compete in 120+ CWTs
• Wildcard (like finish the QDX or some other ham related project)