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 hundred Hz from Dave's
frequency I heard another station, considerably weaker. It took some digging
but I finally copied W5UN again! I was taken aback until I realized that I was
hearing him off the moon and off the back of my antenna on tropo. The nearly
setting moon was imparting Doppler and a 2 second time delay, causing me to hear
two completely different signals. I worked him and I'm pretty sure it must have
been EME. BTW, Dave is 950 miles from me.
Wes N7WS
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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