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

[Brian Alsop]

I wonder if the probability of being an future avid DXer depended upon 
whether one was first licensed near a sunspot peak or sunspot minimum?

For me the working of a WH6 on 40M just before school was the clincher.

Ruined a bunch of FT-243 xtals trying to grind them down for near the 
Novice 15 and 40 M band lower edges.

Worst DX: "Working" the FCC when supposedly on 80M but bandswitch on 
40M.  So being crystal controlled didn't mean you couldn't operate 
outside the Novice bands...

73 de Brian/K3KO

On 5/26/2014 14:31, 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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