Made a great contact last night from southern New Jersey to Belize on
twenty meters with my Scout. The only reason I'm sharing this is that I
just got my General Upgrade a few weeks ago and am in the middle of
moving so all my big radios and antennas are in boxes in the storage
unit. But I took four Slinkies and a home brew 9:1 Balun and put a
slinky dipole in the attic. I've been using my scout just for code
practice and 10-40 meters. Well I heard this guy booming in last night
on 14,225 and for the fun of it I dropped my call letters and he came
back. He was running a Kenwood into a 1.5kw amp into a four element
beam and he gave me a 579 signal in Belize. When I told him my radio
was a TT Scout running about 40 watts into a four slinky dipole he
almost crapped. So chalk another one up to the great little scout and
good propagation. Must make the guy think " I spent all this freakin
money and this guy's running 40 watts from a 500 dollar radio and a ten
dollar antenna" He was also my first DX contact. Can't wait to get to
the new QTH next month and get the Paragon back on the air. 73s
everyone. I don't have his call here at work but he will be in Belize
and was making a regular schedule on 14,225 at about 0300 UTC. He said
he will be there for another couple weeks.
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Carl Hyde
carl.s.hyde@lmco.com
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"Tics"
meaning "blood sucking parasites"
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