I remember working western Europe on six in the mid 50s. Using a homebrew
three element E.M.T. beam ( yes E.M.T. Could not afford aluminum!!) The
rcvr was an old BC radio with a six meter converter and a modified Globe
Scout transmitter (see my QRZ page.).
AHH the good old days.
73
Joe k2UF
While there have been many interesting QSO's since I was licensed in 1968(age
16), the one that stands out was on a Saturday morning in 1969. I was
cleaning my bedroom, and since my radio was in there, I had it on tuned to
the 15 meter cw band while doing my chore. A weak station started calling
On March 27 this year, I heard V31VP on 20M RTTY. I was getting
ready to call him with my amp, but I heard him come back to my
test transmission at 1.4 watts. We completed the QSO. Indeed, as
David AB7E says, "Propagation is a strange and fickle mistress."
73 Bill AE6JV
On 9/13/18 at 5:45
A couple come to mind but one stands out. Without digging out dozens of old
paper logs I'll guess about 1982-83 I was on 2M EME pointed west to my setting
moon looking for JA or UA9. I heard a CQ and copied W5UN. I'd worked Dave many
times, even on 2XSSB so I continued to tune. A few
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 8:53 PM Fred Jensen wrote:
> You should have been a teen in the run-up to Cycle 19...
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Ain't that the truth. I had a homebrew Tx and a Hallicrafters SX-96 in 1957
and 1958 as a novice (KN0LTB). I had a pretty good antenna and 15 meters
was open nearly
Mine was rather recent, early 2014 to be exact and with the Amsterdam
Island expedition that year. I had worked them on some other bands and
then on Saturday morning, 08 Feb, I saw they were spotted on 80m. 80m?
That's half a world away and all I had was a doublet up about 20 feet
that measured
You should have been a teen in the run-up to Cycle 19 in the 50's,
Wayne. I can't imagine what a K could have done. Our
prehistoric gear was actually doing amazing things then. Other than
Field Day, field operations, SOTA, Parks, IOTA and the like hadn't been
invented. HF mobile was big,
I've had my share of weird ones, but one that sticks in my mind was
during Field Day several years ago. I'm not sure, but I think I was
using my new K1 that year. Bob, K7ZB and I were operating up on the
Mogollon Rim of Arizona, and one of the antennas I was checking out the
night before
15 meters never fails to amaze me.
During a recent bout of paper log archaeology, I rediscovered a QSO I logged as
a teen, in 1972. I was just minding my own business, tuning up using a Heath
DX-20 driving 3 feet of coax to a 40 W incandescent bulb. Then a guy in
Illinois called me
Some
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