On May 26, 2006, at 1:11 PM, Bekir Kemal Ataman wrote:
I finally managed to contact a US station (KP4BME) yesterday with
10 Watts
on 20 meters. The propagation is just beautiful nowadays.
As for the special event stations I'll be running, the callsigns
TC150HP
and TC150DD have been approved. I expect to setup the antenna on
Monday and
start calling CQ on Tuesday as TC150HP from Haydar Pasha train
station.
I'll be on the air between 30 May and 30 June, mainly after 14:00Z
until
the time I get tired or XYL starts shouting on the phone, which
ever is
earlier ;-) However I may not be able te get on the air everyday.
So, do
look out. I intend to call at frequencies around 7.092 and 14.270,
if they
are available, since these are the national calling freq.s I expect
to be
on 20 and 40 m mainly but I might give other bands a try, too, to
make good
use of the propagation.
I'll probably be using a Yaesu FT-857, since my K2 lacks the 100W
option.
However, I am just too fond of the K2, so you never know ;-)
Hope to meet you on the air.
73!
deTA2RX
If there is any way you could activate one of those callsigns over
the 27-28 May weekend, you could probably make a large number of
contacts in the WPX-CW contest:
<http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/WPX%20Contest%20Rules0612705.pdf>
That prefix would be quite popular in this contest. I operated that
contest in the QRP category from France two years ago with my K2 and
a small coil-loaded vertical antenna inside my hotel room. I had
limited operating time and didn't make very many contacts (enough to
receive a certificate however), but it was a lot of fun experiencing
contesting from a non-US perspective.
73 - Bob, N7XY
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