At 12:18 PM 10/11/03 -0400, you wrote:
It is kind of curious that you don't hear very many on a day to day basis. If
most of them are on CW, that would explain it, but it seems to be alot of
radio for only CW.
I'm surprised by this for a couple of reasons - 1) there are many of these
rigs out in circulation now after 6 months of shipping. 2) Outside of
contesting, I'm a fairly casual op, only on the air 2 or 3 nights a week,
but I keep hearing them on the air all the time - and I have been making
an effort to break away from only operating CW and listen on SSB
more often.
Had fun last night listening to W3MC and N3JT in a QRQ QSO on
3.528 while trying to break the ZA1A pileup on 7.006 in the other
ear using the Orion. Then when 'MC quit I got a chance to talk to
him for a few minutes before he went off to sleep.
Sometimes you have to unlearn some of your old expectations to be
able to operate something new properly. 73.
Yes - no question about it.
Scott Robbins
W4PA
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