Back in the "good" days of sunspot 1957-58, and me a new ham and could only
afford a Heath Kit Sixer. So, I put a ground plane vertical up and while I
lived on the Pacific coast, I could hear a lot of local Pacific coast
stations. Now while the Sixer was good at local QSO's, how about now with the
band wide open. Remember these were the days of crystal bound transmitters
and wideband super regen receivers. I heard a station calling CQ in an
oriental voice and I called and called. Then I heard my call sign, WOW. I
worked a JA on 6 meters with 1/2 watt AM. First real DX for the new ham.
Mel, K6KBE
From: Bob Nielsen - N7XY <n...@n7xy.net>
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs
The most rewarding QSO I DIDN'T have:
A few sunspot cycles ago I tuned around 10 meters from my then-QTH in
California. The ONLY signal I could hear on the entire band was from a
beacon station on Reunion Island, very copyable.
73, Bob N7XY
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