[Elecraft] The Old 15 Meter - or 21 Mc - Band

[Dauer, Edward]

Me too!  For me it was 1957 - the peak of the best sunspot cycle ever.
Every morning before going to school I was in my cellar ham "shack"
working my way through the rest of the world on 21.1+ with a DX-20, a
dipole, an HQ-100, and a QTH right at the ocean's edge.  DXing like
shooting fish in a barrel.  Great fun.  The Novice license in those days
was valid for one year and NON-renewable.  It was one year, then up or
out.  (I was KN1CBR then, became K1CBR later, then went back to KN1CBR
when vanity calls became available, purely as a matter of nostalgia.)
These days I am recapturing some of it - but not the technical primitivity
- with my KX3 and indoor dipole (at 21.02 Mhz) in an urban condo in
Denver.  Still great fun!

Ted, KN1CBR
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>Message: 25
>Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 22:43:05 -0400
>From: Barry LaZar <k3ndm at comcast.net>
>To: KX3 at yahoogroups.com, Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Activity in ancient 15-meter novice band
>	(21.1	MHz)
>Message-ID: <5382AA39.4080007 at comcast.net>
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>Wayne,
>     I remember that band. It was my favorite even though I wasn't a
>novice. I met some of the friendliest hams in the world there, to
>include some great DX.
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>73,
>Barry
>K3NDM
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>On 5/25/2014 4:03 PM, Wayne Burdick n6kr at elecraft.com [KX3] wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to the PX3 panadapter and the CQ WW CW contest, I just made my
>> first QSO in at least three decades in the legacy 21.1 MHz U.S.
>> Novice-license segment. I didn't expect activity to spread upward that
>> far, but sure enough, blips appeared on the PX3 above 21.1, and I was
>> able to make a quick QSO with WK1Q using 12 W (KX3 barefoot).
>>
>> This brought back a lot of memories. 21.1-21.15 was my favorite place
>> to hang out back in the 1970s, when I was crystal-controlled on
>> transmit, using a Heath HW-16. In those days I had a home-rolled
>> 2-element 15-meter yogi made from 1/2-inch steel pipe and 2x4s. Must
>> have weighed 40 pounds. Fortunately, my patient stepfather knew that
>> getting that antenna up would keep me out of trouble (I was 15 at the
>> time).
>>
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
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