DX

e all get wrapped up in chasing the usual awards, but for many of us that can become hit or miss as you climb the award ladders to WAS, WAC, DXCC, WAZ, and so on. Personally, having worked them all, I have found it fun to fill in holes with band and mode QSOs. But I can remember occasional past “club activity awards” that really caught my attention. DXing in the pandemic presented us all with a high and low of activity. The high represented the extra time many of us had staying at home, turning on the radio and making QSOs. The low was having all of that extra time, but with the pandemic, DXpeditions were pretty much on hold. So, we were all left with working other people who were staying home all over the world, but usually in the less rare DXCC entities, and virtually none to uninhabited ones. Overall, this was a blessing in disguise for general ham radio activity. There were many non-hams out there resorting to watching the news on TV far more than was healthy (IMHO), or focusing all of their attention to “online social media.” Meanwhile, many ham radio operators who had access to a radio were