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<anything> 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, VHF FM and repeaters hadn't been invented
either. Unfortunately, I believed "This is just how it will always be."
73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 9/13/2018 5:45 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
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 years later I was using a home-brew rig (the “Safari 4”) while visiting my
Mom in Arizona. The battery was nearly depleted, the rig putting out only 200
mW. The antenna: 8 feet of wire running directly from the rig through a window
to a clothesline. Tuning slowly, I heard a CQ from Rwanda (9X5). I called him
and got a “QRZ?” With a *lot* of patience on his end, we completed a basic QSO.
No computer, no narrow filtering, no noise blanker.
I would’ve gone nuts for a KX2 back in those days.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
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