[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 ---
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 ---
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- Forwarded Message From: Gary Smith wa1...@yahoo.com To: kjo...@virtualcohesion.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:44:30 AM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Most memorable QSO Hi Kelly, As soon as I read your message, I didn't even have to go back through all of my QSL's to remember my most memorable QSO. Here's what happened: It was the 10th of October, 1965. I was just 5 days from my 13th birthday. I was already a dedicated SWL and had confirmed 50 countries as part of Hank Bennett's WPE Awards program. My father was a musician and also a shortwave radio enthusiast. One of the fellows he played in a band with with was Johnny Russo, K1OVI. When Jonny heard that I was interested in radio, he invited me to come to his house to see his shack. He lived in a three family house in Torrington, CT, and had converted one stall of a 3 car garage into his radio room. He was running a Swan 500 and had a 50 foot tower beside the garage with a tri-band beam on it. When I arrived, he was puttering around, cleaning things up. He had the radio tuned up on 20 meters. He took a few minutes to teach me how to call CQ and then cut me loose to see if I could make a contact. I called CQ for probably 15 minutes before anyone came back to me. The station that finally responded was WA4UVR (my first ham contact!!!). Johnny was surprised at the WA4 prefix because he said that he had the beam pointed at Europe. It only took a couple of minutes to find out that the WA4UVR call belonged to Ensign J.A. Stradauskas, one of the ships radio operators on the U.S.S. Forrestal, an aircraft carrier stationed in the Med. You can just imagine the thrill a 12 year old boy experienced that night, sitting in front of a black box in Connecticut and talking to someone aboard an aircraft carrier several thousand miles away. A couple of weeks later, the attached QSL card arrived. My very first from a 2-way contact! It was the beginning of my love affair with radio. My Dad and I became hams together. I moved from Connecticut to Illinois and we enjoyed many good QSO's over the years until he became a silent key in 1982. After his passing, I took a long sabatical from ham radio, but, as many others have discovered, radio somehow gets into the blood stream. At the encouragement of another dear friend, Charlie KA1DBS, I got back into the hobby in 1998 and was able to get my father's callsign, WA1TJB, which I now proudly and lovingly use as a memorial to him. Ham radio will always be in my heart -- and twiddling the dials will always be a joy. 73, Gary WA1TJB - Original Message From: Kelly Jones kjo...@virtualcohesion.com To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 8:27:35 AM 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 ---
[DX-CHAT] Most memorable QSO
DX,Memorble QSO'shttp://www.arrl.org/news/features/2005/06/29/1/Steve NG0G --73 49 111 01001001 ---To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message toimail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chator subscribe dx-chatThis is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org---
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 ---
