[Elecraft] [KX3] Great QSOs, 21st century

Sat Sep 15 01:09:21 EDT 2018

I once got a QSL card when my car had a QSO with another car via APRS.  I’ll try to dig out the card and quote from it, pretty funny stuff!  73 de Carl, not his car!  ;-)

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Carl Jón Denbow, N8VZ
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> On Sep 15, 2018, at 12:43 AM, Bob Nielsen, N7XY <n7xy at n7xy.net> wrote:
> 
> It's been quite a while, but Henry Radio was on Olympic Boulevard at that time, not Century.  I  visited there many times.
> 
> Bob, N7XY
> 
> 
>> On 9/14/18 8:38 PM, Robert Friess wrote:
>> I received my Novice license in 1953 at the age of 11.  I had a NC101X
>> receiver that my dad bought for me at Henry Radio on Century Blvd in LA for
>> $60.  While waiting for what seemed like decades for my license to arrive,
>> I built a 6AG7 crystal oscillator  for my transmitter.  I had one crystal
>> at 7085.  My license finally arrived and I was officially KN6HMO.  I called
>> CQ endlessly and no one answered.  I set up schedules with a few locals a
>> few miles away and they heard me, but no one else.  A few weeks later
>> someone gave me a 815 dual tetrode.  I went through my junk box and found
>> enough parts to build an amplifier.  I tested it by listening on my
>> receiver to make sure that the output was tuned to 40 and not some
>> harmonic.  The sun went down and I started sending CQ.  A station in Texas
>> returned my call.  It was a thrill that hasn't been repeated in the
>> following  65 years.
>> 
>> Bob, N6CM
>> 
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 6:29 PM Alan James alanmjames at yahoo.com [KX3] <
>> KX3-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I think it was Winston Churchill.
>>> 
>>> Alan KZ6B
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> *From:* "Charles Powell doctorcwp at yahoo.com [KX3]" <
>>> KX3-noreply at yahoogroups.com>
>>> *To:* Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
>>> *Cc:* Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>; KX3 <KX3 at yahoogroups.com>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, September 14, 2018 3:37 PM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [KX3] Great QSOs, 21st century
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Well, S0 noise can be frightening because it makes one think the front end
>>> has gone out on the radio.  But then I’m always duped when the first CW
>>> signal comes in and blasts my ears out.
>>> 
>>> Today: SFI=69 and SN=0 (yes ZERO), but NEVER let that keep you off the
>>> air.  I had some time this afternoon and managed to work Germany and France
>>> with 5 watts.  Had it not been for QRM, I would have had a nice rag chew
>>> with France.  Unfortunately the QRM kept stepping on my signal (I could
>>> hear him as well.)
>>> 
>>> Other stations heard today include OJ0DX (Market Reef) and Kuwait.  Had
>>> the other stations been a little more patient, I’m sure I could have worked
>>> both.  I guess they thought they weren’t making enough contacts and moved
>>> on to other bands/modes.
>>> 
>>> Never give up!  Never say die!  (Who knows the movie quote?)
>>> 
>>> 72,
>>> 
>>> Charles - NK8O
>>> 
>>> On Sep 14, 2018, at 2:46 PM, Wayne Burdick n6kr at elecraft.com [KX3] <
>>> KX3-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Wow! Thanks for the nostalgic RF trip, everyone. Seriously...great stories.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Moving forward in time a bit, I wanted to note that RF miracles continue
>>> to happen every day. (Well, most weekends in my case.) Last Saturday’s
>>> physics-be-damned results: several solid SSB QSOs on 20 and 17 meters all
>>> over the country, including KH6, with a prototype AX1 dual-band whip and a
>>> KX2 used HT style.
>>> 
>>> What I need is an alarm app for my iPhone that tells me that HF conditions
>>> are hot and it’s time to get out of the shack. Ring tone of choice: first
>>> four bars of “Born to be Wild”.
>>> 
>>> Is it just me, or is there something life-changing about a noise level of
>>> S0? It’s just a short drive away, even in Silicon Valley.
>>> 
>>> Wayne
>>> N6KR
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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