[Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Thu Sep 13 23:34:24 EDT 2018


On March 27 this year, I heard V31VP on 20M RTTY. I was getting 
ready to call him with my amp, but I heard him come back to my 
test transmission at 1.4 watts. We completed the QSO. Indeed, as 
David AB7E says, "Propagation is a strange and fickle mistress."

73 Bill AE6JV

On 9/13/18 at 5:45 PM, n6kr at elecraft.com (Wayne Burdick) wrote:

>During a recent bout of paper log archaeology, I rediscovered a 
>QSO I logged as a teen, in 1972. I was just minding my own 
>business, tuning up using a Heath DX-20 driving 3 feet of coax 
>to a 40 W incandescent bulb. Then a guy in Illinois called me....

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