About 4pm one afternoon in New Jersey, I heard an Egyptian station in
QSO with a W8 on 20 meters. I waited to pounce, because I had never even
heard Egypt before. But then the W8 asked him to "try 40," and the
Egyptian immediately QSYed. I despaired. Although I only had 40 watts, I
had a 2-element beam at 30 feet on 20, and only a low dipole for 40. But
I went to the 40m frequency that they had agreed upon. And there was the
W8 calling the SU.
The Egyptian station couldn't hear him. But he heard me!
73,
Victor, 4X6GP
Rehovot, Israel
Formerly K2VCO
CWops no. 5
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
On 14/09/2018 5:07, Nate Bargmann wrote:
Mine was rather recent, early 2014 to be exact and with the Amsterdam
Island expedition that year. I had worked them on some other bands and
then on Saturday morning, 08 Feb, I saw they were spotted on 80m. 80m?
That's half a world away and all I had was a doublet up about 20 feet
that measured barely 200 feet overall and fed with 450 ohm window lead.
Well, I heard him (CW was the mode) and I called and he came back! I
about fell over but completed the exchange.
From Amsterdam Is. is probably the closest entity to the antipode.
According to all of the antenna books and experts over the years, this
was not supposed to happen, but there it was.
When people ask me how I can talk, I can honestly answer, "Halfway
around the world."
73, Nate, N0NB
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