[Elecraft] First QSO!

[Phil Hystad]

Sean,

If you are interested in the W1AW QSO party for the centennial year, follow this link:

http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party

The simple rules are to get all states but there are variations on modes and so on.  There is a schedule for the full year where you can see which states will be having W1AW stations operating.  It is located on the ARRL web site and you can probably find it from the link I included above.

This is a very casual contest but the trick is finding the different stations.  They are on multiple bands, operating with multiple modes although I am 100 percent CW on these.

73, phil, K7PEH



On Mar 22, 2014, at 7:00 PM, Sean Wall <seancwall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Phil,
> 
> It was on SSB, and yes, I was definitely nervous. In fact, I was mostly caught off guard when they replied because I had been calling CQ for a while and got no response and I had just scanned through the band when I heard W1AW/5 calling CQ. I tried it and - bam! - he replied back. I sent back my signal report and, like a knucklehead, asked what they were doing in region 5. He just laughed and told me he was working the ARRL centennial station in NM. Oops. 
> 
> -Sean
> KK4YPE
> 
> 
> On Saturday, March 22, 2014, Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com> wrote:
> Congratulations.  Were you as nervous as I remember being with my first about 50 years ago.  Was it CW or SSB with W1AW/5.  I picked up the NM W1AW/5  CW yesterday morning at 14.02525 MHz.
> 
> Have fun...
> 
> 73, phil, K7PEH
> 
> 
> On Mar 22, 2014, at 5:23 PM, Sean Wall <seancwall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Just wanted to let you know I got my first ever QSO today!  It was with an
> > ARRL Centennial station in New Mexico, W1AW/5.  I was on my KX3 with 10W
> > running into a 10m dipole. Pretty exciting!
> >
> > -Sean
> > KK4YPE
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