At 6:35 PM -0400 7/30/06, Peter Dougherty wrote:
100W, a modest wire, patience, skill and a few handfuls of sunspots
are all that's needed to get one's country count well into the
mid-upper 200s.
Maybe. I have a Hy-Gain DB-1217 at 60' on 17, my favorite band, an
Explorer-14 at 50', plus an AL 1500 behind it. I worked The
Montenegro easiest on 40 CW with 100W to a rotatable dipole, and I
can barely just copy my call and get a reply back on CW.
At my vacation home I have a 17M kind-of-inverted-vee and could hear
swain's well enough to copy. Barefoot here, I didn't even try to call
when I listened to the big guns up 5 to 10 -- especially the 6's. I
know -- that's how I sound to THEM with MY KW when they first tried
to work Montenegro.
I suspect there will be many more trips to KH8 Swain's and I won't be
missing it for long.
It's a game that I enjoy and these additions got me back on the air
after a year and a half of almost no activity.
N2ERN
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