Good evening folks,
40 meters was rough this evening. But I am assuming your families are
feasting you on this Father's Day. My first check in was a bit tough but
I caught the call sign in two halves. It appears W0MFQ, Tom, is not in
Missouri this week. But I got a series of MNMNMNMNM but must have missed
a character because when I spelled out Minnesota I got a NO NM NM NM.
Then I got it and sent New Mexico, my old stomping grounds. It was pretty
much ESP copy so I kept it short. His KX1 was getting all the way from
the Land of Enchantment to our mountain in the Coast Range of Oregon.
Then I got another partial and asked for a fill. As soon as I heard the
NLU I realized I was using the wrong antenna to work an op who's about 40
miles away! I switched and copied him much better. The storms were
causing havoc though. I am sure I heard something under them but just
could not pull any more ops out of the hash.
The list:
W0MFQ - Tom - NM - KX1 - 307
N7NLU - Karl - OR - on either his K1 or K2 - 1663 or 4227
I forgot to verify but sigs were not as great as I would have liked (now
there is an understatement :)
I did work a few ops yesterday from the Elecraft booth which was great
fun. Passed out one ECN QSL card and seven SeaPac QSL cards. The music
of CW caught a lot of attention and I was giving more than one lesson on
paddle use, code copy skills, sending, and occasionally on how to use my
K2 ;)
Thank you both for your check in this evening. Sorry if I missed someone
but the bands were not helping me very much. I will try again in two
weeks since Field Day is coming up and it uses the bands quite
effectively. I'll be staffing a CW table somewhere; I have yet to
determine which.
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS (Net Control Operator ?th Class)
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