I can relate to all of this. And I cannot recall a
worse sunspot cycle than the one we have now.
Phil W7OX
On 5/26/14, 7:31 AM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
Me too! For me it was 1957 - the peak of the best sunspot cycle ever.
Every morning before going to school I was in my cellar ham "shack"
working my way through the rest of the world on 21.1+ with a DX-20, a
dipole, an HQ-100, and a QTH right at the ocean's edge. DXing like
shooting fish in a barrel. Great fun. The Novice license in those days
was valid for one year and NON-renewable. It was one year, then up or
out. (I was KN1CBR then, became K1CBR later, then went back to KN1CBR
when vanity calls became available, purely as a matter of nostalgia.)
These days I am recapturing some of it - but not the technical primitivity
- with my KX3 and indoor dipole (at 21.02 Mhz) in an urban condo in
Denver. Still great fun!
Ted, KN1CBR
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Message: 25
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 22:43:05 -0400
From: Barry LaZar <k3...@comcast.net>
To: k...@yahoogroups.com, Elecraft Reflector <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Activity in ancient 15-meter novice band
(21.1 MHz)
Message-ID: <5382aa39.4080...@comcast.net>
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Wayne,
I remember that band. It was my favorite even though I wasn't a
novice. I met some of the friendliest hams in the world there, to
include some great DX.
73,
Barry
K3NDM
On 5/25/2014 4:03 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com [KX3] wrote:
Thanks to the PX3 panadapter and the CQ WW CW contest, I just made my
first QSO in at least three decades in the legacy 21.1 MHz U.S.
Novice-license segment. I didn't expect activity to spread upward that
far, but sure enough, blips appeared on the PX3 above 21.1, and I was
able to make a quick QSO with WK1Q using 12 W (KX3 barefoot).
This brought back a lot of memories. 21.1-21.15 was my favorite place
to hang out back in the 1970s, when I was crystal-controlled on
transmit, using a Heath HW-16. In those days I had a home-rolled
2-element 15-meter yogi made from 1/2-inch steel pipe and 2x4s. Must
have weighed 40 pounds. Fortunately, my patient stepfather knew that
getting that antenna up would keep me out of trouble (I was 15 at the
time).
Wayne
N6KR
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