Yeah, sure, but he had that “active antenna tuner” in the line to compensate for line loss…..

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 12:51 PM <w5znjoel@gmail.com> wrote:

Dennis,

 

You do know Rick was “barefoot”, don’t you?

 

ZN

 

From: adxa-bounces@mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces@mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Dennis Schaefer
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 12:47 PM
To: ADXA <ADXA@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [ADXA] KC4USV

 

I saw KC4USV at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on 20 FT8 last night.  It brought back a lot of memories.   We used to hear USV often on 20 SSB in the early evening with a booming signal.

 

One of our locals, Dave, KG5GH, worked at McMurdo  several times.  One night about 2 AM, my phone rang.  It was a ham in Louisiana and he said Dave was on at KC4USV and wanted me to know.   I fired up on 20M and had a nice conversation with Dave.  He said I was about S9.  After a few minutes, we paused and heard “Kilowatt 5 Uniform Radio”.   Rick joined the conversation.  I was proud of my S9 report until Dave told Rick he was S9 + 20!

 

Dennis/RZ

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