Two bits- I was on 40 M CW one night and heard a rather loud CQ from ‘W7CQR’ (my call is N7CQR). So naturally I responded because it’s unusual to work anyone with your same suffix. It turned out that not only was he in my town, but that we were friends from many years past when we played music together (old time string music-‘pre bluegrass’) At the time we were playing somehow the subject of ham radio never came up! Moral is always talk about your hobbies! On a more current note-I was reading a previous post where one of the folks was commenting on the high noise levels we experience today. A remedy of sorts is to escape the urban area if possible. Today was the HF campout (we do this every summer) for our local ARES group up in the Mt.Hood Nat’l forest of Oregon-near Timothy Lake if anyone knows where that is. I took the KX2 and a loop antenna (W4OP)about 6 feet high, which I use extensively on SOTA and other outings. Lightweight and goes up in about 3 minutes. Anyway, I set it up and a crowd gathered and someone commented that it didn’t seem to be working as there was no band noise (20M),and another ’the bands are dead'. I sat down,put out a CQ and in 5 minutes worked a slew of stations from Minnesota,Arizona, and other locations around the country. 5 W to a small antenna. Yes-there was almost no noise-just signals. Try it if you can…I’ve been licensed since 1966 and having more fun than ever and getting in shape hiking the SOTA summits. Dan Presley N7CQR n7...@arrl.net
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