A first QSO to anywhere by any method means that a person was in the
right place at the right time and stayed up all night to achieve the
object, especially in the case of Transatlantic. I have had some firsts
and the same criteria applies, in some cases luck, then having seized
the opportunity expertise and skill play a part.
Recently some of us up and down the UK and in other parts of EU have
decided to sit up late and are now doing better than so called Firsts
and still using the same old transmitters, antennas and QRS mode varying
from 2 sec dots- 60 sec dots, DFCW and a recent Measles mode with spots
galore!!
Perhaps we should have stayed up later some years ago to become an
obsolete First.
G3KEV