And I just finished a nice CW Qso on 160m. I called cq for 10 minutes using
the barefoot Omni-C. Then I kicked in my Hercules II and blasted away with
500w. I was the the only cw station this side of the rockies on that band.
Finally....K7TFF came back to me with a rather puney but decent 569 signal.
Jerry was running 100 watts to his rain gutters. Yes, he was feeding the
gutters from the center of his coax and his ground was the iron porch
railing. I would estimate it was a 500 mile path. What fun! 73
Steve N4LQ
-----Original Message-----
From: Clark Savage Turner <turner@rome.ics.uci.edu>
To: SSloane904@aol.com <SSloane904@aol.com>
Cc: Tentec@contesting.com <Tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Anyone
>
>Now THERE'S a question I am interested in :-) :-) .
>
>I got on today and tuned around with my OMNI VI, heard a weak
>one calling CQ on the lower part of 40 SSB, he was not on
>7182, but seemed to be 7182.35 or so..... I liked that so
>I called him back, figuring he has an older analog rig. I
>get funny urges like that sometimes.
>
>He was running one of those little MFJ QRP rigs, sounded pretty
>good. He did say that some QRM had moved in and he was about
>to fire up his Scout so he could have some filtering, but we
>weathered the storm OK. Nice choices in rigs :-).
>
>I like QRP SSB ops who are willing to give it a go. I like my
>OMNI VI receiver and the DSP that really helps pull them out
>for comfortable copy. It was fun.
>
>Clark
>WA3JPG
>
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