[ARC5] First 630 Mtr QSO- Sort of....

[J Mcvey]

Congratulations on your first 630M contact.
I have been monitoring the increased activity on 474.2 ( wspr and JT modes). Night propagation was pretty good on Saturday .All I'm using is a 160 meter antenna on a FT450 which has dubious sensitivity on 630 meters and I was getting west coast stations 3000 
miles away.I haven't tried stabilizing the BC453 BFO yet to make it useful on digital. I think I might get off shore DX with it if I can stop the drift.
 

    On Monday, December 11, 2017 8:10 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
 

 Well I had my first 472 KC QSO last night.  Sort
of. 
John, KB5NJD is on just about every night calling
"CQ" on CW.  He's only about 50 miles away and has
an awesome signal.  I can hear him very well on
the R1155 I use for a "morale radio" while working
on the bench.  
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Psd8LvPuCzw13txs1

All those CQs with no answer- I thought I'd at
least try to "encourage" him.  Haven't finished
the 630 Meter antenna yet, so figured I might be
able to get a piddly little signal out- enough to
go 50 miles- with what I had.  So I fired-up the
BC-375 with a TU-22 tuning unit and the BC-348.
Only antenna right now is to short the coax to the
80-meter full-wave Delta Loop and feed it against
the normal station ground.  The BC-375 can load-up
a dead armadillo and it did deliver a little
antenna current.  I couldn't find the key dedicate
to the SCR-287 (different connector from the
usual).  So I used the TEST button on the front
panel to key the transmitter.

I didn't expect to have enough signal to cause
John any trouble, but as soon as I signed my call,
he came back.  Said I had a 599+ signal!  Go
figure on that one?  Wonder what those computer
programs would say about that.  Anyway, I keyed
(as best I could with that button) "R WILL WRITE
DE AB5S AR."  We exchanged emails later to explain
my odd-ball QSO.

And my impression of "Lonesome John?"  Turns-out
he's worked 28 states and 5 countries!  LOL.

GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S


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