[Elecraft] Interesting QSO

[John Meade]

I was on my deck today with the KX1 and the bands were really bad here.  I 
was trying a Par 40/20 end fed antenna on top of a new Jackite 28-foot 
windsock pole. I called CQ near 7040 anyway and a VE3 came back to me.  No 
big deal, but he was on SSB!  We had a nice QSO for about 20 minutes.  I 
heard him work a few more stations "cross mode".  So if you call CQ on 40, 
open up your bandwidth and you might be answered by VE3AAG (Norm near 
Ottawa) on SSB.

BTW - the Jackite pole is nice, and sturdier than the World Radio SD-20 pole 
that I had been using.

72,

John W2XS