[ADXA] Morroco QSL Card
w5zn at w5zn.org
w5zn at w5zn.org
Fri Dec 4 08:09:41 EST 2020
Looks like it wasn't me operating then, E.J. Was either Tim or someone
else. My last (thankfully) trip there was in August on 1989!
ZN
On 2020-12-01 19:04, EJ Jones wrote:
> Great story Joel! I bet that was a blast running the pile ups from the other end. I was just reading his bio. The only legal ham in Taiwan until 1985. He was probably glad to have someone else there to give him a break from operating
>
> EJ
>
> From: w5zn at w5zn.org <w5zn at w5zn.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 7:40 PM
> To: EJ Jones <k5ej at outlook.com>
> Cc: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ADXA] Morroco QSL Card
>
> Yep that's the card. I need to look back to see if I was the op them. It was around that time that my "tour of duty" with the Taiwan Power Company at the Chin Shan nuclear station ended, Tim actually had two callsigns. BV2A was used on CW and BV2B on Phone. "Bravo Victor 2 Bravo" had a nice swing to it.
>
> At that time, Taiwan was prohibited from working any communist countries, given their history with China. I don't believe that is still in force today. I would have TONS of Russians calling me and I so badly wanted to start a run but Tim kept cautioning me. I simply had to ignore them and it was always one hell of a pileup from them.
>
> Tim was a super nice guy. Very professional with a very pleasant personality, a super guy. The station was on the top floor of a building in downtown Taipei that had a sliding door where you could walk out of part of the roof where the antennas were. Back then the noise was not bad at all. I can imagine what it would be like there today. Tim, of course, is SK now. The first time I wanted to meet him I wasn't exactly sure how to proceed so I ask our agent in Taipei if he would do me a favor and contact him. A couple of days later he said Tim will come in to the city tonight and meet you at this address (he had it written on a piece of paper) at 7:00 PM. I grabbed a taxi and Tim was standing outside waiting on me when I arrived.
>
> Oh well, enuf of this story. I'll check back in some old work calendars (I have always kept a big yearly calendar for years of where I was, etc) that I've kept.
>
> ZN
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> On 2020-12-01 19:22, EJ Jones wrote:
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> From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of sbranyan at cox.net <sbranyan at cox.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 3:43:45 PM
> To: k5ur at aol.com <k5ur at aol.com>
> Cc: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [ADXA] Morroco QSL Card
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> Thanks, Rick, for the spot. Can't use 15m at the moment.
>
> I have a G5RV and here's a pic of SWR on it for all except 80m. I've damaged my TS-480 running it on the high SWR bands at high power settings (80-90w) for DX on ft-8. It doesn't smoke, but smells like burning metal when I try to transmit. Opened the case and there is no sign of burned circuitry, but the TX boards have the smell I was smelling. I'll be sending it in for repair.
>
> I discovered a few weeks ago when I noticed unusually high SWR on the power meter and I could not make a simple contact, the Alpha Delta arrestor on the antenna had shorted out. I replaced the fuse, and it was better, but when I by-passed the whole arrestor, the SWR was a point lower on all bands. It had been up to 4-4.5 on 15m and about 5.5 with the blown fuse. So I'm not a fan of the arrestors any more. Seems they can cause issues even with a good fuse. I was using the 2KW version, so maybe I should have been using the 500KW one.
>
> Anyway, I had already ordered an IC-7100 for portable use and as a backup. It doesn't have a tuner, so I'm careful to keep it under 50 watts and only on 40m where the SWR is 1.5 or less.
>
> In the meantime, I also have a new PAR Quad Band Half Wave End Fed to put up over the holidays. So I'll have a well tuned 40-20-15-10m antenna. Need to come up with a 80m homebrew dipole so I can finish DXCC on 80m.
>
> Any other tips appreciated.
>
> 73,
>
> Scott/W5AAJ
>
> From: k5ur at aol.com [mailto:k5ur at aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:49 AM
> To: sbranyan at cox.net
> Subject: Re: [ADXA] Morroco QSL Card
>
> Still after Western Sahara and Mali
>
> Scott, TZ1CE is on 21.028. You mentioned that you were limited to 40 meters, if you are using a 40 meter dipole, it will tune on 15 so give it try.
>
> 73,
>
> Rick - K5UR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sbranyan at cox.net
> To: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Mon, Nov 30, 2020 6:00 pm
> Subject: [ADXA] Morroco QSL Card
>
> Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.
>
> Received a card for 5E1EC (commemorative call for CN8EC) today for a FT4 contact on 20m from the end of October via a Russian QSL manager.
>
> Still after Western Sahara and Mali that have been showing up recently, but I'm limited to 40m at the moment.
>
> 73,
>
> Scott/W5AAJ
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