[JMS] AWA AM QSO Party - Lots of Millen Going On

[ronnie.hull]

and I had to work darnit!!

Ronnie _ W5SUM

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From: "Freeberg, Scott (STP)" <Scott.Freeberg at guidant.com>
To: "The James Millen Society Members Email Reflector" 
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Sent: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:58:37 -0600
Subject: [JMS] AWA AM QSO Party  - Lots of Millen Going On

> Wowee wow wow.  That was the most well attended and enthusiastic AM 
> event I've ever heard!!!   I worked 75 meter AM Saturday night, and 
> found band conditions to be fair to good, signals up and down the 
> band.  For Saturday I used the Viking Valiant and NC-300, with the 
> 160 meter inverted vee.  I joined in the pile up for W2AN and worked 
> for maybe 1/2 to 45 minutes before getting through.  Excellent!! It 
> was a special treat working W2AN because they were using James 
> Millens homebrew transmitter and personal HRO receiver. I had 
> several contacts plus joined in a large roundtable and hooked up 
> with old friends and made new friends.   
> 
> Later I QSO'd Don N9OO who was running his pipsqueek 30 watt Millen 
> setup.  Sounded good up in Saint Paul.  I also hooked up with Gary 
> WA4IAM and I think he was running his Millen station as well!
>  
> Sunday I got on 20 meter AM for several hours and worked several 
> more AM stations.  For Sunday I switched receivers to the 75A-4 
> because I wanted to use the passband tuning when things got tough. 
>  It was interesting because at first there wasn't much activity, a 
> station or two, within an hour or two it was jammed from 14275 to 
> 14290, then it petered out :->  Probably just following propagation 
> I suppose.  It was fun to hear all the AM stations on 20 meters as 
> there isn't much AM going on there normally.
>  
> I was working guys, then moving around the frequency hoping to find 
> W1HRX.  I didn't hear him Saturday night, and by Sunday afternoon I 
> thought my chances of snagging him had passed. I was hoping to get 
> one of those special event W1HRX QSL cards.  I was saying 73's to a 
> station, telling him I was going to hunt around for W1HRX, that I 
> haven't heard him, that I"m running out of time, yada yada yada.  I 
> let up on the PTT and there is W1HRX calling me.  Wow,  talk about 
> 'out of the blue'.  It was nice meeting Jim for the first time and 
> it was nice contacting the W1HRX flagship station. Grandslam! UH 
> HUH! UH HUH!  :->
>  
> Thanks Gary, Dave, Ed, Jim and others for this great time! 
> 
> I don't want to spread rumors but I happen to know someone very 
> close to me, if not me, ok its me, who just bought a gorgous 
> National NC-101X with matching speaker!!  I'm hoping that will make 
> for some fine 1930's QSO's.
>  
> 73, Scott WA9WFA
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