Yes, it's AI. Yes, I still laughed!

Couldn't sleep, woke up, turned on WSJT-X, snagged my 181st country :-)

43 years ago today! My life-long love of radio kickstarted by my first ever QSL card

After 35 years amateur radio continues to surprise and delight me. I didn't think my doublet antenna was working that well, especially on 10m - but I had two SSB contacts into Chile tonight. Checked my logs and they're the furthest two voice contacts I've EVER had. Not bad for 50 watts.

Thanks @MW1CFN for reminding me that JT9 was a thing, I'm definitely hooked now. Only 12 stations heard me, but I had 5 QSOs in 30 mins - considering each one was 4-6 mins, that's pretty good going

Still having no luck with JS8. Some stations can hear me - I can't decode anyone though

What have I been doing today? Reconstructing my old paper logbook so I can put it on a spreadsheet. The logbook has entries between 1989 and 1992 (my first amateur radio session before I returned briefly in 2006) and is mostly legible. But some of the callsigns had faded too much, including one from Guatemala. I have all the QTHs but I can't read the calls. (1/2)

Managed to work OJ0JR on 30m FT8 just now. I've never worked Market Reef before, I had to look it up! Check it out on Google Maps - there's a very weird boundary going on ....

37 new cards from the QSL bureau today. I think this is the nicest one - despite the Comic Sans font on it!