Re: [Elecraft] The Complete DXer - OT

2008-02-23 Thread Dave Andrus
Ed: Back in the waning days of the Vietnam conflict, I was flying C-130 aircraft (not as a pilot--but I wish I could've!). When doing the long, boring rides over the Pacific from the Philippines or Hawaii, I'd go up and sit with the pilots and crew chief occasionally. Sometimes I'd

[Elecraft] The Complete DXer - OT

2008-02-22 Thread Ed Lambert
One night, 23 January 2008, during a lull in the action on a flight from Anchorage to Chicago, I tuned the #2 HF radio to 7.012 MHz and heard W9KNI calling cq dx asia. He was rewarded with quite a run. It was instructive simply to listen to him in qso with a number of stations during that run. He