Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[David Gilbert]

Yes.  In fact, the forum guidelines prohibit exhortations such as that 
by A45WG.


Dave  AB7E


On 9/16/2018 1:52 PM, Gwen Patton wrote:

Somehow, I think the founder of Elecraft can decide what is appropriate to
post on the Elecraft mailing list. 

On Sun, Sep 16, 2018, 3:08 PM Carl Yaffey  wrote:


I was going to post about working rare DX with a KW to a wet noodle but
thought better of it. Hi hi



On Sep 16, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Wes Stewart  wrote:

This is a support group.  This subject was more-or-less initiated by

Wayne.

On 9/16/2018 3:43 AM, a45wg wrote:

Please ENOUGH of this !! - Go form a support group or something.


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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Gwen Patton]

Somehow, I think the founder of Elecraft can decide what is appropriate to
post on the Elecraft mailing list. 

On Sun, Sep 16, 2018, 3:08 PM Carl Yaffey  wrote:

> I was going to post about working rare DX with a KW to a wet noodle but
> thought better of it. Hi hi
>
>
> > On Sep 16, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Wes Stewart  wrote:
> >
> > This is a support group.  This subject was more-or-less initiated by
> Wayne.
> >
> > On 9/16/2018 3:43 AM, a45wg wrote:
> >> Please ENOUGH of this !! - Go form a support group or something.
> >>
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Carl Yaffey]

I was going to post about working rare DX with a KW to a wet noodle but thought 
better of it. Hi hi


> On Sep 16, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Wes Stewart  wrote:
> 
> This is a support group.  This subject was more-or-less initiated by Wayne.
> 
> On 9/16/2018 3:43 AM, a45wg wrote:
>> Please ENOUGH of this !! - Go form a support group or something.
>> 
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Wes Stewart]

This is a support group.  This subject was more-or-less initiated by Wayne.

On 9/16/2018 3:43 AM, a45wg wrote:

Please ENOUGH of this !! - Go form a support group or something.



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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[a45wg]

Please ENOUGH of this !! - Go form a support group or something.

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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Dan Presley]

Two bits- I was on 40 M CW one night and heard a rather loud CQ from ‘W7CQR’ 
(my call is N7CQR). So naturally I responded because it’s unusual to work 
anyone with your same suffix. It turned out that not only was he in my town, 
but that we were friends from many years past when we played music together 
(old time string music-‘pre bluegrass’) At the time we were playing somehow the 
subject of ham radio never came up! Moral is always talk about your hobbies! 
On a more current note-I was reading a previous post where one of the folks was 
commenting on the high noise levels we experience today. A remedy of sorts is 
to escape the urban area if possible. Today was the HF campout (we do this 
every summer) for our local ARES group up in the Mt.Hood Nat’l forest of 
Oregon-near Timothy Lake if anyone knows where that is. I took the KX2 and a 
loop antenna (W4OP)about 6 feet high, which I use extensively on SOTA and other 
outings. Lightweight and goes up in about 3 minutes. Anyway, I set it up and a 
crowd gathered and someone commented that it didn’t seem to be working as there 
was no band noise (20M),and another ’the bands are dead'. I sat down,put out a 
CQ and in 5 minutes worked a slew of stations from Minnesota,Arizona, and other 
locations around the country. 5 W to a small antenna. Yes-there was almost no 
noise-just signals. Try it if you can…I’ve been licensed since 1966 and having 
more fun than ever and getting in shape hiking the SOTA summits.  
Dan Presley  N7CQR
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Tony Osman]

The QSO that sticks in my mind was back in 1971, I was at college with 
Cable and Wireless in Camborne, Cornwall and the main engineering 
college was at Porthcurno.  I was the social secretary for my group 
(about 30) and my job was to coordinate with the college to get a bus to 
take us to the monthly dance.  I had not been able to contact the 
college and was in qso with Paul, WB2OZW (SK) and mentioned this, he 
then told me that he had just qsoed with one of the guys at the college 
- he went off frequency, found him and brought him on my freq.  I could 
not hear the college guy, skip was too long but Paul could hear us both 
and he relayed the messages back and forward.


I had a number of qsos with Paul after that and he always had a chuckle 
at getting us to the dance!!


--
Tony
VE3RZ

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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Ken]

The one that comes to mind was via OSCAR III in 1970.  Just married, we 
lived in an apartment, not ideal for sat comms.  My 2 meter rig was a 
WW2 AM aircraft transmitter with an 832 (dual tetrode) push pull as the 
final.  Of course, not designed for CW. mode conversion did not look 
easy.  I broke the cathode lead and put the key in the line with 300 
volts across the key (I'm sure the younger semiconductor generation 
would be shocked!)  It probably had a significant backwave from the 
driver signal but OSCAR didn't hear that.


Antenna?  I C-clamped a board to the outside window sill with a bracket, 
a 10' piece of conduit, and a simple dipole on the top, all fed with 
RG-174 which was thin enough to close the window on.   I saw the 
landlord looking at it one day, but he never said anything.


The setup worked!  I had a QSO with a VE2 as well as a local friend.

Ken WA8JXM
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Peter Chamalian]

My tale is not about one QSO but rather an amazing 24 hours of QSOs.  It all 
started with the CQ WW CW DX Contest in November, 1979.  I decided to do 15 
meter single band entry with my basic 4 element monobander at 70 feet, a Drake 
TR-7 and a kw.

The band started off as usual, open to JA, a few SA and Carib stations.  I had 
expected 15 to go dark by 01z but to my surprise it was still going.  The log 
was slowly filling with JA, SA and Carib but now there started to appear 
goodies such as HL9, UA0, VK, ZL and some other Pacific station.  So it sent, 
hour by hour with no let up in sight.  By 08z the opening shifted and now there 
were eastern EU stations coming through!  Yeah -- wow.  By 09z the opening to 
EU closed and I thought I might get a little sleep but first I checked long 
path.  I swung the beam to 220 degrees, the band noise came up and my tuning 
produced some amazing stuff -- a VK6 (who asked for my zone 3 times -- he 
couldn't believe it), 9V1 and a host of goodies from SE Asia and even 
stretching into UL7.  Even a EU or two snuck through.  By 10z the path closed 
but lo and behold 15 was now waking up as it normally would with Carib stations 
and ZS.  Within a short time, it was open to EU and it was off to the races.

I had never experienced anything like this before or since.  Truly an amazing 
30 hours because the band didn't actually close until 03z the next night.

As for results, 1173 QSOs, 95 countries and 37 zones.  Number 5 in the world, 
top US and a USA record score.


Pete, W1RM
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Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 8:46 PM
To: Elecraft ; KX3 
Subject: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

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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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Richard Smart]

As Wayne noted - there is still some RF (Propagation) magic left. I enjoyed a 
short SSB QSO today from ZL with K6JL (Terry).

And while I am sure Terry’s station was doing a lot (all) of the hard work- the 
station at this end made it a lot of fun - new K2 built a few months ago 
running around 13W into a 43’ mostly random wire - one end at about 22’ (Squid 
pole) and a counterpoise of the same length. 

Looking forward to more of the Southern Hemisphere summer season coming up with 
more chances to get outdoors with this kit

Richard
ZL4FZ



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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Bob McGraw K4TAX]

I've never indicated I was of sound mind.  

Bob, K4TAX


Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:17 PM, Fred Jensen  wrote:
> 
> While many people talk to themselves, most do it privately and not in a 
> setting where half of the planet can hear them. [:-)
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
> 
>> On 9/14/2018 2:27 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
>> Mine was the first time I transmitted my call with the antenna array aimed 
>> at the moon, switched to receive, adjusted the VFO frequency a bit, and 
>> heard my own call come back.   Yep, some 2.56 seconds delay, a frequency 
>> shift of about -200 Hz due to Doppler, and from a distance of  239,000 miles 
>> one way, or 478,000 miles round trip.   Sweet!   Then much later and as the 
>> station improved, on SSB I transmitted "HELLO MOON", switched to receive and 
>> tweaked the VFO a bit and heard "HELLO MOON" come from the receiver.   I 
>> suppose one could consider this somewhat of a 2 way QSO with myself.   One 
>> other occurred while working a station about 250 miles away on VHF and via 
>> EME.I heard his tropo signal, and then his moon signal, shifted in time 
>> and frequency. And likewise he heard mine.  Now would this be considered one 
>> QSO or two? With my 59 years of ham radio in my log, I still find ham radio 
>> fun and enjoyable.   Much thanks to Elecraft today, and the friends I've 
>> made along t
 he way.
>> 
>> 73
>> 
>> Bob, K4TAX
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Wes Stewart]

My first time hearing my echos was pretty thrilling too.  So was working W5LFL 
in Columbia and having him say, "N7WS, the loudest signal we've heard in the 
spacecraft" and then later getting to meet him in person.


Wes  N7WS

 On 9/14/2018 2:27 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
Mine was the first time I transmitted my call with the antenna array aimed at 
the moon, switched to receive, adjusted the VFO frequency a bit, and heard my 
own call come back.   Yep, some 2.56 seconds delay, a frequency shift of about 
-200 Hz due to Doppler, and from a distance of  239,000 miles one way, or 
478,000 miles round trip.   Sweet!   Then much later and as the station 
improved, on SSB I transmitted "HELLO MOON", switched to receive and tweaked 
the VFO a bit and heard "HELLO MOON" come from the receiver.   I suppose one 
could consider this somewhat of a 2 way QSO with myself.   One other occurred 
while working a station about 250 miles away on VHF and via EME.    I heard 
his tropo signal, and then his moon signal, shifted in time and frequency. And 
likewise he heard mine.  Now would this be considered one QSO or two? With my 
59 years of ham radio in my log, I still find ham radio fun and enjoyable.   
Much thanks to Elecraft today, and the friends I've made along the way.


73

Bob, K4TAX


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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Fred Jensen]

While many people talk to themselves, most do it privately and not in a 
setting where half of the planet can hear them. [:-)


73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 9/14/2018 2:27 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
Mine was the first time I transmitted my call with the antenna array 
aimed at the moon, switched to receive, adjusted the VFO frequency a 
bit, and heard my own call come back.   Yep, some 2.56 seconds delay, 
a frequency shift of about -200 Hz due to Doppler, and from a distance 
of  239,000 miles one way, or 478,000 miles round trip.   Sweet!   
Then much later and as the station improved, on SSB I transmitted 
"HELLO MOON", switched to receive and tweaked the VFO a bit and heard 
"HELLO MOON" come from the receiver.   I suppose one could consider 
this somewhat of a 2 way QSO with myself.   One other occurred while 
working a station about 250 miles away on VHF and via EME.    I heard 
his tropo signal, and then his moon signal, shifted in time and 
frequency. And likewise he heard mine.  Now would this be considered 
one QSO or two? With my 59 years of ham radio in my log, I still find 
ham radio fun and enjoyable.   Much thanks to Elecraft today, and the 
friends I've made along the way.


73

Bob, K4TAX


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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Wes Stewart]

I have his card for a 10 meter QSO on 5 March 1972 (my dad's 65th birthday).

Wes  N7WS


.  On 9/14/2018 2:48 PM, Ted Bryant wrote:

I have one wall of my shack covered with QSL cards from all over the world.
One particular card is from 7Q7AA in Malawi for a QSO in 1971.  Many of you
may have worked him.  One day I just happened to pay attention to the small
print at the bottom of the card.  It noted the operator:  B. J. "Tony"
Martin W4FOA.  As it turns out, Tony W4FOA whom I have known for years, is a
member of our local Tennessee Valley DX Association.  I knew Tony had been
active from several places in Africa when he worked for the government but
never associated him with that call sign.  I took the card to one of our
meetings and we had a great conversation about his days in 7Q7.

I sometimes forget how small this hobby often makes our world.

73, Ted W4NZ



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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Mel Farrer via Elecraft]

Back in the "good" days of sunspot 1957-58, and me a new ham and could only 
afford a Heath Kit Sixer.  So, I put a ground plane vertical up and while I 
lived on the Pacific coast, I could hear a  lot of local Pacific coast 
stations.  Now while the Sixer was good at local QSO's, how about now with the 
band wide open.    Remember these were the days of crystal bound transmitters 
and wideband super regen receivers.   I heard a station calling CQ in an 
oriental voice and I called and called.  Then I heard my call sign, WOW.  I 
worked a JA on 6 meters with 1/2 watt AM.       First real DX for the new ham.
Mel, K6KBE

  From: Bob Nielsen - N7XY 
 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 2:03 PM
 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs
   
The most rewarding QSO I DIDN'T have:

A few sunspot cycles ago I tuned around 10 meters from my then-QTH in 
California.  The ONLY signal I could hear on the entire band was from a 
beacon station on Reunion Island, very copyable.

73, Bob N7XY
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[kq8m]

Two of my craziest were:

Going to 80 one evening 2 hours before sunset and working VQ9QM. He even made a 
note on the card to express his surprise to work the US at that time. And the 
funny thing is no one else called him from the US. He went back to running EU 
which I could not hear.

Sitting on 10 meters with the idea that the expedition to KH1 (SM0AGD/KH1) 
would be on at a certain time and they would transmit on 28595. Right about the 
time I figured they would be there so I called them a couple times and he came 
back then went split.

Strangest QSL I ever received was a coconut. Yes an actual coconut that was 
sent via USPS and NOT packaged. Everything was pasted right to the coconut. 
That came from my old friend KH6ML.

73
Tim, KQ8M
k...@kq8m.com

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The most rewarding QSO I DIDN'T have:

A few sunspot cycles ago I tuned around 10 meters from my then-QTH in 
California.  The ONLY signal I could hear on the entire band was from a 
beacon station on Reunion Island, very copyable.

73, Bob N7XY
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Bob McGraw K4TAX]

Mine was the first time I transmitted my call with the antenna array 
aimed at the moon, switched to receive, adjusted the VFO frequency a 
bit, and heard my own call come back.   Yep, some 2.56 seconds delay, a 
frequency shift of about -200 Hz due to Doppler, and from a distance of  
239,000 miles one way, or 478,000 miles round trip.   Sweet!   Then much 
later and as the station improved, on SSB I transmitted "HELLO MOON", 
switched to receive and tweaked the VFO a bit and heard "HELLO MOON" 
come from the receiver.   I suppose one could consider this somewhat of 
a 2 way QSO with myself.   One other occurred while working a station 
about 250 miles away on VHF and via EME.    I heard his tropo signal, 
and then his moon signal, shifted in time and frequency. And likewise he 
heard mine.  Now would this be considered one QSO or two?   With my 59 
years of ham radio in my log, I still find ham radio fun and enjoyable. 
  Much thanks to Elecraft today, and the friends I've made along the way.


73

Bob, K4TAX



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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Bob Nielsen - N7XY]

The most rewarding QSO I DIDN'T have:

A few sunspot cycles ago I tuned around 10 meters from my then-QTH in 
California.  The ONLY signal I could hear on the entire band was from a 
beacon station on Reunion Island, very copyable.


73, Bob N7XY
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Lee Murrah via Elecraft]

In the late 1970s my wife and I came home from a party about midnight.  I 
decided to listen to the ham bands a bit, and I heard a call from Guyana.  I 
called and worked them. We later exchanged QSL cards.

Several years later while driving to work I suddenly remembered the QSO and the 
events that had happened since.

I rushed home and dug out the QSL card.  There is was. PEOPLES TEMPLE 
AGRICULTURAL PROJECT.  I had worked the station associated wit the Jim Jones 
settlement whose residents later committed mass suicide.

Not rewarding, but definitely crazy.
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Dave New, N8SBE]

"You always remember your first." :-)

My first DX contact as a 16-yr old Novice in August of 1970, was on 15
meter CW (rockbound of course, I still have the 3rd-overtone 7 MHz
crystal) with LU2DAW, an Argentinian who turned out to be a retired
railroad radio operator, who had done CW professionally for most of his
life.  He must have been VERY patient with my brand-new shaky 5 WPM CW
fist.

I used a borrowed Knight Kit T-60 transmitter, a Hallicrafters SX-99U
receiver with outboard Heathkit Q-Multiplier, a Dow-key antenna relay,
and a 'horizontal' inverted vee antenna in my parent's L-shaped attic. 
My Morse key was a Radio Shack black plastic special, screwed to a piece
of fiberboard.

I treasure the QSL card to this day.

73,

-- Dave, N8SBE (approaching 50 yrs licensed in 2020)
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Stephen Dubin via Elecraft]

Rather apropos to the current season, I remember a particularly rewarding QSO 
that I had a couple of years ago during a severe linear windstorm (derecho?). 
Our mains power had been out for about 18 hours. I fired  up my KX1 (on 
internal batteries, it reported a mighty 1.8 watts into my OCF up 15' on 20 m.) 
at about 20:00. My CQ call was answered by a gentlemen in Ohio who identified 
himself as a clergy person. After comforting me with compliments about how good 
my signal was, he ended the QSO by wishing me, "May God richly bless you and 
give you light." About 15 seconds, the lights came back on.

VY 73 de W3UEC (Steve Dubin)

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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Steve Lawrence via Elecraft]

One of mine:

http://dokufunk.org/amateur_radio/dxcc_entities/index.php?CID=4728=EN=4758#A4758
 


73 - Steve WB6RSE
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Michael Blake via Elecraft]

Joe, my good 1958 memories include working a JA on 6M AM with my home-brew EMT 
ground plane, GlobeScout 680A, SX-99 and convertor.  Like all the other 
comments I never considered conditions changing. I had a 10M AM rig in my first 
car, in 1959, and worked the world on 29.6 AM.  In fact I met the father of my 
future bride on 10M AM.

Wayne will have to SQUISH this one for sure.  Oh, wait a minute, Wayne started 
this one:)

73 - Mike - K9JRI






> On Sep 14, 2018, at 12:48 AM, Joe K2UF  wrote:
> 
> I remember working western Europe on six in the mid 50s. Using a homebrew
> three element E.M.T. beam ( yes E.M.T.  Could not afford aluminum!!)  The
> rcvr was an old BC radio with a six meter converter and a modified Globe
> Scout transmitter (see my QRZ page.).
> 
> AHH the good old days.
> 
> 73
> 
> Joe k2UF
> 

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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP]

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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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Martin]

In the 80's I held a license for VHF/UHF only, like a novice license.
I had just taken down my 21 element UHF and 10 element VHF antennas and 
elevation rotator for satellite work and replaced them with a 4*10 
element yagi array for 2m dx. Tuned around the ssb part of the 2m-band 
and heard nothing. Humm..So i tuned to the satellite band and 
clearly could copy DP0GVN , the german antarctic station, on amsat oscar 
10 satellite. WHAAAT? I hooked up what was left from my UHF antenna, i 
think it was 9 or 10 elements, reflector and radiator included. Held it 
out the shack window and aimed roughly in the same direction where the 
2m antenna was pointingand made the contact. I recall the op on the 
other end saying something like "Guys, you got to hear this. This weirdo 
holds his antenna in his hand". Can i claim a /portable satellite contact?


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Ohne CW ist es nur CB..

73, Martin DM4iM
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Joe K2UF]

I remember working western Europe on six in the mid 50s. Using a homebrew
three element E.M.T. beam ( yes E.M.T.  Could not afford aluminum!!)  The
rcvr was an old BC radio with a six meter converter and a modified Globe
Scout transmitter (see my QRZ page.).

AHH the good old days.

73

Joe k2UF
 

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[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred Jensen
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:52 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

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 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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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[George Winship, NC5G]

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)



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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Bill Frantz]

On March 27 this year, I heard V31VP on 20M RTTY. I was getting 
ready to call him with my amp, but I heard him come back to my 
test transmission at 1.4 watts. We completed the QSO. Indeed, as 
David AB7E says, "Propagation is a strange and fickle mistress."


73 Bill AE6JV

On 9/13/18 at 5:45 PM, n...@elecraft.com (Wayne Burdick) wrote:

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


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408-356-8506   | Fourth Amendment that it operates only by
www.pwpconsult.com | accident.  -  William Hugh Murray

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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Wes Stewart]

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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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Tony Estep]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 8:53 PM Fred Jensen  wrote:

> You should have been a teen in the run-up to Cycle 19...

=
Ain't that the truth. I had a homebrew Tx and a Hallicrafters SX-96 in 1957
and 1958 as a novice (KN0LTB). I had a pretty good antenna and 15 meters
was open nearly all the time. Signals were booming in from everywhere on
earth. I was one of a few novices who worked DXCC during the 1-year
allowable Novice term. Bill, KN4RID, now W4ZV, was the first. Great fun.
Short-wave radio was high tech in those days and guys all over the world
were eager to get in on the excitement. I assumed it was always going to be
like that.

Tony KT0NY
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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Nate Bargmann]

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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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Fred Jensen]

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 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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Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[David Gilbert]

I've had my share of weird ones, but one that sticks in my mind was 
during Field Day several years ago.  I'm not sure, but I think I was 
using my new K1 that year.  Bob, K7ZB and I were operating up on the 
Mogollon Rim of Arizona, and one of the antennas I was checking out the 
night before the contest was a long, low vertically oriented rectangular 
loop that EZNEC+ told me should give a decent match on both 40m and 
20m.  It was ten feet long on the vertical end sections, something like 
40 or 50 feet long on the horizontal sections, fed in the middle of one 
of the ten foot verticals, and the lower horizontal wire was about five 
feet off the ground.  The idea was to get low angle vertical radiation 
with some broadside gain, which in retrospect was a dumb idea given the 
horrible ground conductivity in that area.  It turned out to be the very 
worst antenna I've ever used for Field Day and we had our worst score 
ever as a result ... and this is from two guys who in the year 2000 
(with totally different antennas ... hi) set was was then the all time 
record for 1B 2OP - Battery with 970 QSOs and an even 10,000 points.  
The low rectangular loop was simply pure trash.


But ... that night before the contest while I was testing it out on 20m 
CW I heard an FR5 (middle of the Indian Ocean) calling CQ.  He was about 
S5 and came back to me on my first call with only five watts from my 
end.  Propagation is a strange and fickle mistress.


73,
Dave  AB7E



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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