How funny Dennis! I worked ole P5KIM on 17m about a year ago. Thought it was very funny! He had a heck of a pileup, my log started barking at me for working that call, hi. Something about not being a legit operation or something like that.
However LB4BDXer, I did run across a real P5 on 10m SSB, I didn’t know it at the time how rare that one was going to be. Karma or something told me to work that one. Glad I did, but it was only one mode/band. I will take it. 😊
Back in those days I just loved to be on 10m and most of the time on QRP rig that I had built. Good times!
73 de jay/w5jay..
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Heck, I can’t even find my old baseball cards! Surely, some of them are worth millions, or maybe at least enough to buy a cup of coffee at Mcdonald’s.
I’m pretty sure i won’t find any QSLs but I am still missing a logbook from about 79-83. We lived three different places in that period, but it is here somewhere.
I’m not worried, though - I modeled the collinear orthogonal stacked Hertzian extended double Zeppo’s for 30 meters and gain is about 37 dbi. I expect I’ll be so loud in North Korea that Kim himself will issue himself a license and work me to shut me up. Or - a nice dipole up 50 feet could work, also :)
For 80 meters, a 3 element yagi on a 200 ft tower should get me up the ladder. Or maybe an inverted L over a big pine tree. I’ll decide that one after hearing Joel’s talk :)
73
Dennis
On Nov 25, 2022, at 11:47 AM, [email protected] wrote: