There are 3 days each year that Australian amateur radio operators are permitted to operated with an ‘AX’ prefix:
- Australia Day (January 26)
- ANZAC Day (April 25)
- World Radio Day (February 13)
This year has been the first year in a very long time that I have remembered I can use the AX prefix, I have had the motivation and the radio shack readiness have converged to where I spent the day working the world on FT8.
Over the course of several hours, I managed to work a total of 255 contacts starting on the 10m (28.074Mhz) band in the morning, and then moving down to the 17m band (18.1Mhz) in the afternoon.
To put this into some perspective, in recent years I have only been making less than 50 contacts for the entire year (outside of contesting).
For those who did make a contact with me, a special eQSL(tm) card should now waiting for you:
Please note that there were quite a few stations with incomplete QSOs, often with failure to acknowledge my sent report – those QSOs have been not been added to the log.