A couple of nights ago, I was calling CQ on CW. No takers. Then, I heard my call rising out of the band noise. "N1AS DE UU1AZ K". Whoa, hold the phone, get outta here! A DX station called ME. I'm only running 10 watts to a vertical and he answered MY CQ? Must be the Mojo. Well, turns out it was more than that. He is an SKCC guy and was actively searching for new numbers from other SKCC members like me. His antenna is, and I quote, "full size 4 element yagi, 42 meters up". That's high. Oh yea, we were on 40 meters. Imagine the size of that antenna system. He sent me an MP3 recording of part of our QSO. It was an absolute hoot to hear my signal from a few thousand miles away. It didn't sound so good though and his side tone sounded nasty. I asked what rig he was using. "FT1000MP". Oh, that explains a bit :-) So it appears that part of the secret of the Mojo is to work a person with an antenna the size of Rhode Island, high enough that 747s have to fly around it. It was sure a lot of fun! 73! - Keith N1AS - - K3 711 - _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
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