Writing & Thoughts
Reflections on naval history, political science, amateur radio adventures, and music.
Chasing the DXCC Honor Roll has been the long game for generations of DXers. Decades of listening through static, upgrading antennas, learning propagation, and losing sleep over an elusive prefix. The reward is a place on a short list of operators who have worked nearly every entity on the planet. The DXCC Honor Roll should be hard. It should not be impossible. Under the current rules, it is.
The FCC has published new rules in the Federal Register that will become effective for US Amateur Radio operators on 13 February 2026. These changes align US allocations more closely with international standards while maintaining some legacy channels.
You too can earn WAS and DXCC without having to have a kilowatt and a 100 foot tower. Read on.
For fifty years, I have been listening to the world through a pair of headphones and a length of wire strung between poles. When I began to imagine a novel set in 1914, I kept returning to a remarkable coincidence.