Not ranked perhaps as the Most Wanted DXCC countries but a C9, an SU, an R0, a 9Q and a VY0 have combined to bring spurts of life to the doldrums-stricken HF bands over the last two months. Between them, they activated five new lOTAs, quite a bonanza given that the list of still unnumbered lOTAs is now tapering off. We were back almost to the days when it was high risk for any IOTA aficionado to take time off for a holiday! The pile-ups were huge but, with signals not always strong, some of the openings for less well-equipped stations were all too short.
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