[Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs

[Mel Farrer]

Back in the "good" days of sunspot 1957-58, and me a new ham and could only afford a Heath Kit Sixer.  So, I put a ground plane vertical up and while I lived on the Pacific coast, I could hear a  lot of local Pacific coast stations.  Now while the Sixer was good at local QSO's, how about now with the band wide open.    Remember these were the days of crystal bound transmitters and wideband super regen receivers.   I heard a station calling CQ in an oriental voice and I called and called.  Then I heard my call sign, WOW.  I worked a JA on 6 meters with 1/2 watt AM.       First real DX for the new ham.
Mel, K6KBE

      From: Bob Nielsen - N7XY <n7xy at n7xy.net>
 To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 2:03 PM
 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Craziest / most rewarding QSOs
   
The most rewarding QSO I DIDN'T have:

A few sunspot cycles ago I tuned around 10 meters from my then-QTH in 
California.  The ONLY signal I could hear on the entire band was from a 
beacon station on Reunion Island, very copyable.

73, Bob N7XY
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