[Lowfer] 137 kHz 2E0ILY-N1BUG QSO complete

[Cliff Sojourner]

8 weeks for the QSL to go by ship across the Atlantic...

On March 28, 2018 1:08:55 PM PDT, N1BUG <paul at n1bug.com> wrote:
>Just a little? :-)
>
>This is the way many of the previous long distance QSOs were done on
>the band. It still works.
>
>One might be able to argue that life is too short... ;-)
>
>Paul
>
>
>
>On 03/28/2018 03:56 PM, Jay Hainline wrote:
>> LOL ok Paul. The rate is a little slow. 😉
>> 
>> Good job!
>> 
>> Jay KA9CFD
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net <lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
>On Behalf Of N1BUG
>> Sent: March 28, 2018 19:42
>> To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands
><lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] 137 kHz 2E0ILY-N1BUG QSO complete
>> 
>> Four nights, Jay. We went old school and used night by night
>sequencing. On the best nights Chris is plenty strong enough here for
>JT9 or DFCW3 which would allow a quick QSO, but relatively long time
>integration is needed for him to copy me. The hard part is the anxiety
>waiting for the next night to see where the QSO stands and wondering if
>you're going to eventually complete it. :-)
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 03/28/2018 03:29 PM, Jay Hainline wrote:
>>> Congratulations Paul! So how much time was actually spent to make
>the 
>>> QSO? I wasn't quite sure on your posting.
>>>
>>> Jay KA9CFD
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net
><lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net> 
>>> On Behalf Of N1BUG
>>> Sent: March 28, 2018 19:10
>>> To: rsgb_lf_group at blacksheep.org; rsgb_lf_group at yahoogroups.co.uk; 
>>> Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands 
>>> <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
>>> 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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