Re: [DX-CHAT] Most memorable QSO
> > I thought it might be interesting to wrap this into a future column of > WorldRadio. If you have a memorable DX QSO, I'd like to hear about it. > What made it memorable for you? Might have told this story on here, but here it is again if I did. So it's an afternoon in January 1999, my fourth year as a ham. I'm a sophomore in college home at my parents' house for winter break and I've got all the time in the world to do some DXing. At the end of summer 1998 I'd put up a little two element homebrew beam for 10m, and the band is pretty good with the sunspots on the uptick. I'm tuning around 10m with the little beam pointed WSW because I know the Pacific guys come in. I'm kicked back in my chair, I think with feet up on the desk, twirling the VFO knob. All of a sudden... *crack!* ... something lets go in the chair and I nearly fall over backwards on the floor. Some bolt pulled out of the bottom of the seat or something; cheap office furniture... but it's what I like to sit on, so I go get some tools out of the workbench and start working on lashing it back together. There I am, sitting on the floor fixing my chair, when I hear a CQ, not quite zero beat on the frequency where I stopped tuning when I fell over, but totally readable. A few seconds later I have Terry, VP6TY, in the log for an all time new one... 73 Dan --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Most memorable QSO
Hi Kelly Well I worked HM King Hussein of Jordan JY1 several times. I was there on the first day he came on March 9th 1970. Don, SV0WI had been in Jordan working and came back on 20m with exciting news. Don had set up and "tested" the royal station and then returned to Athens. Its a long story but with this prior knowledge I was second UK QSO for JY1, my old friend Colin G3JEC (Who I'd telephoned, was first) My second contact with JY1 was the next day. I was chatting on 14192 with 5Z4KL Andre and GW3AHN Tom, about the previous days excitement when King Hussein called me! I have two hand written QSL's from the Royal Palace in Amman, sent via airmail from those QSO's. King Hussein stayed on frequency a while and worked a few more friends. Back in 1970 we ragchewed not a simple 59. I also contacted JY2 several times, Princess Muna and indeed JY1/B Major ( later Colonel) Zaza all from the royal palace in Amman or the holiday QTH at Aqaba. On that day March 9th JY1 was looking for Don SV0WI and called SV0WII, he must have thought the call JY1 was strange, especially when the operator said his name was Hussein. The SV0 sadly ignored the King and moved of frequency finally, missing being the very first QSO for JY!, I was listening and busting to get a call in... those were exciting days! 73 David G3XYP - Original Message - From: "Kelly Jones" To: Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:27 PM Subject: [DX-CHAT] Most memorable QSO Hi Guys - I was thumbing through an old box of QSL cards the other day and reminiscing about some of the QSOs that where in there. It's pretty amazing how we can look at a QSL card and it brings back the memories of working that station. I thought it might be interesting to wrap this into a future column of WorldRadio. If you have a memorable DX QSO, I'd like to hear about it. What made it memorable for you? Did you sit in the pileups for hours? Did you happen to catch a rare DX station CQing before he was spotted? Did you work somebody famous (JY1 comes to mind). Anything that sets the QSO apart from others is what I'd like to hear about. And if you happen to have a QSL card for the contact, it would be icing on the cake if you could forward that as well. For those that are not aware, WorldRadio magazine was sold to CQ this past November. With the sale, WR was transformed into an online magazine and is now free to anyone. The first online issue was "published" about a week ago and can be found here: http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/WorldRadio.html. See you in the pileups! Kelly - N0VD WorldRadio DX Columnist --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
Re: [DX-CHAT] Most memorable QSO
Yea - memorable can mean a lot of things to different people. I never did manage to work JY1 but I did have a QSO with EA0JC... However, my most memorable QSO which in the greater scheme of things is pretty insignificant was a QSO with a VK8 station and a P29 station way back about 2 sunspot maximums ago. They were chatting to each other on 10m and as they were closing I chucked my call in and they came back to me.The VK8 was running a converted CB set running 4 watts to a mobile whip antenna and the P29 was running a similar TXR (a Midland from memory) into a Partridge Joystick Antenna. Some of us Brits might remember the Joystick - for those who dont it was like a broom handle wire wire coiled around it and tapped. The Antenna was on the ground leaning against the wall of his hut! Like me, both guys were astounded at the length and quality of out QSO. That to me is what makes the hobby worthwhile. That is DX, not just the rubber stamp 5NN with K5D (I hope) hihi. de Tom GM4FDM Kelly Jones wrote: Hi Guys - I was thumbing through an old box of QSL cards the other day and reminiscing about some of the QSOs that where in there. It's pretty amazing how we can look at a QSL card and it brings back the memories of working that station. I thought it might be interesting to wrap this into a future column of WorldRadio. If you have a memorable DX QSO, I'd like to hear about it. What made it memorable for you? Did you sit in the pileups for hours? Did you happen to catch a rare DX station CQing before he was spotted? Did you work somebody famous (JY1 comes to mind). Anything that sets the QSO apart from others is what I'd like to hear about. And if you happen to have a QSL card for the contact, it would be icing on the cake if you could forward that as well. For those that are not aware, WorldRadio magazine was sold to CQ this past November. With the sale, WR was transformed into an online magazine and is now free to anyone. The first online issue was "published" about a week ago and can be found here: http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/WorldRadio.html. See you in the pileups! Kelly - N0VD WorldRadio DX Columnist --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org --- --- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090211-0, 11/02/2009 Tested on: 12/02/2009 14:10:40 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com -- So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090211-0, 11/02/2009 Tested on: 12/02/2009 14:21:59 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com --- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ---
