[Elecraft] K3/10 mojo - discovered the source.

[G4ILO]

Darwin, Keith wrote:
> 
> A couple of nights ago, I was calling CQ on CW.  No takers.  Then, I
> heard my call rising out of the band noise.  "N1AS DE UU1AZ K".  
> Whoa, hold the phone, get outta here!  A DX station called ME.  I'm only
> running 10 watts to a vertical and he answered MY CQ?
>  
> Must be the Mojo.
>  
> Well, turns out it was more than that.  He is an SKCC guy and was
> actively searching for new numbers from other SKCC members like me.  His
> antenna is, and I quote, "full size 4 element yagi, 42 meters up".
> That's high.  Oh yea, we were on 40 meters.  Imagine the size of that
> antenna system.
>  
> He sent me an MP3 recording of part of our QSO.  It was an absolute hoot
> to hear my signal from a few thousand miles away.  It didn't sound so
> good though and his side tone sounded nasty.  I asked what rig he was
> using.  "FT1000MP".  Oh, that explains a bit :-)
>  
> So it appears that part of the secret of the Mojo is to work a person
> with an antenna the size of Rhode Island, high enough that 747s have to
> fly around it.
>  
> It was sure a lot of fun!
>  
> 
Don't know about UU1AZ, but in Ukraine (and the rest of the former Soviet
Union) most people live in crumbling tower blocks. He may well have had his
beam mounted on top of the block of flats he lived in.

I recently returned from holiday in Nerja, on the south coast of Spain. In
that small town I saw no less than three large HF beams mounted on top of
blocks of flats. Hard to imagine that being allowed here in the UK, where
even erecting a small vertical in the back garden of your freehold owned
property produces a knock on the door from a neighbour complaining that it
spoils his view and lowers the value of his property.

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