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

[Phil Wheeler]

I can relate to all of this. And I cannot recall a 
worse sunspot cycle than the one we have now.

Phil W7OX

On 5/26/14, 7:31 AM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
> 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)
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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.
>>
>> 73,
>> Barry
>> K3NDM
>>
>>
>> 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