At 09:17 PM 05/05/2007, Dan Zimmerman N3OX wrote:
To ALL de IZ8DEO <1824Z> : 10.104 the mother of the idiots is always pregnant
Fantastic!
BS7H a no go for me. Gotta wait 'till next time. I should have some
big aluminum in ten years....
Heard 'em well on 20m several mornings but couldn't pull the trigger.
Very easy here in NNJ. CW and SSB on 20 on Tuesday morning. Heard on
30 and 17 but too weak to work reliably, and I really didn't want to
be a hog and deprive others of an all-time new one just for a
band-fill. Never heard loud long-path or evenings, but booming
early-mornings, before 8 am.
I didn't really need a super-fancy antenna system either. No stacks,
no long-boom monobanders, just a Force 12 C31XR up 70' or so (3
elements for 20m on a 31 foot boom), but having a legal-limit amp
and diversity-receive on the Mark V really did make things go easier.
I couldn't believe the cluster-crabs whining like girlie-men, and
especially one nutjob in 8-land who needs some serious couch time -
or at least a tribander, good feedline and a decent amp for next
time. I'm laughing my @$$ off, too, because this lid was complaining
how hard it was at solar minimum. Imagine an operation like this at
solar max, with ten times the number of low-power/low-skill
appliance-operators calling with their popgun stations making it a
lot harder for the DX to hear anything out of NA.
All in all a great big-ol THANK YOU to the whole team for a job
well-done; card and DONATION on the way. I'm really looking forward
to seeing their presentation at Hamvention.
I still can't believe how lucky we, The Deserving, have been in just
the last two years. KP5, VU7, VU4, Peter the First and now BS7. I
missed Ed in P5 but someday :) Now hoping for Bouvet, Navassa, a
legal/accepted operation from Yemen.
Cheers,
Peter,
W2IRT
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