While there have been many interesting QSO's since I was licensed in 1968(age 16), the one that stands out was on a Saturday morning in 1969. I was cleaning my bedroom, and since my radio was in there, I had it on tuned to the 15 meter cw band while doing my chore. A weak station started calling cq on the frequency I was tuned to. It was a German station, so I answered his call. After exchanging names, RST, and QTH's, he told me that he had a visitor in his shack from my hometown. I asked him if his visitor's name was Hank. You could hear the excitement in his cw as he confirmed the name. You see, Hank's daughter and her boyfriend had been at my house the evening before for a visit and dinner and Hank was one of the topics of conversation. After about a thirty minute QSO, mostly about Hank and his family, I took my copy of the QSO to his daughter to share with her and her family. Since Hank was in the Air Force, he was gone from home a lot and this QSO was very special to them. And I can't even imagine the odds of this coming together. And the room cleaning probably didn't get finished that day.
BTW, the rig was a National NCX-5(loved that radio). Antenna was a dipole about 15ft. up in a pine tree. George NC5G (ex. WA5UIH) -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
