I've been turning on 160 the first thing in the morning for a couple weeks, ever since putting elevated radials under my inverted L, and hearing nothing but noise and a couple U.S. super stations calling CQ DX. Did I mention there was a wasp on the window outside my room yesterday?
So this morning the cluster reported that he was on 1.826.5 and eventually I was able to barely hear him. Using every trick in the K3's tool box including APF, I could finally make him out sending his call, but he was ESP level. I put in my call a few times without much hope of working him. After one last time, I decided to go cook some oatmeal and maybe check again in 30 minutes, so I pushed the TX standby switch on the rig as I always do when I walk away from it. I don't want the cats working DX with my call. Just as I was pulling the phones off, I heard: DU? So I mashed the TX standby switch for the eternity of one-half second it takes to go back to active. While doing this, I felt a tiny breeze on the back of my hand -- that red wasp was attempting a landing. I heard the beep and moved my hand to the paddle, the wasp landed on the K3's display, and I sent 'WA5BDU' a couple times. He came back 'WA5BDU 5NN' and naturally he was 5NN too. New 160M country in the log and another thing to be thankful for. 73- Nick, WA5BDU ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
