[Lowfer] 137 kHz 2E0ILY-N1BUG QSO complete

[Jay Hainline]

Congratulations Paul! So how much time was actually spent to make the QSO? I
wasn't quite sure on your posting. 

Jay KA9CFD

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Subject: [Lowfer] 137 kHz 2E0ILY-N1BUG QSO complete

Last night Chris 2E0ILY and myself completed a DFCW60 QSO over a
4731 km path on 137 kHz. To my knowledge this is the first USA to Europe two
way amateur radio QSO on the band. My sincere thanks to Chris for his time
and effort to make this happen!

I apologize if being in the WSPR band created problems for anyone. I asked
Chris to give up four nights (or more) of other activity to do this. I did
not want to additionally ask him to spend hours tuning the antenna elsewhere
and then back again.

Signals were at times outstanding with three hours of perfectly solid copy
here one night. While not quite that good in the other direction, I am very
pleased with the copy Chris had on me. We would not be able to make it on
any other QSO mode, but slow DFCW made it possible!

This QSO was like an adventure. :-) The first night of transmitting I had to
constantly retune the antenna due to influence of very heavy snow squalls.
I'm glad I put a motor on the variometer.
Without it, transmitting that night would not have been possible.

73,
Paul N1BUG FN55mf

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