[Lowfer] Could This Be WH2XXP?

Mon Jan 8 21:59:03 EST 2024

Hi Ward - great to see you on here and miss your sigs on 2200 as well - I like Jay would love to see you back on 8khz - I think I have a system that will do it on rx now after furkling (a British slang word I think) a long time with various arrays - still cant see V01NA here but thats life -

Every day and near week in retirement goes so fast and a lot of time just moving snow from A to Z via B only the snow prefers A about 30 mins later given the winds off the lake

Presently calling cq on 2200 f2 1207Hz even for a while - see if I burn up one of Jays ferrites' on my antenna current sampler =

Laurence KL7L
up here

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From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net <lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Ward K7PO via Lowfer <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
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Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Could This Be WH2XXP?

Hi Jay,
Yes, I still have all of it, and keep telling myself I need to get it back on. It's on my list, but the problem here is retirement. My wife and I came back from Dayton in 2019. I lasted 4 days back at work and just knew it was time to go. I really enjoyed my job, I was a contractor for the Air Force, and managed the Comm Shop on the Goldwater Range in southern AZ, but I had just watched a couple friends die early in retirement, or worse, not make it to retirement. The wife and I decided we would  do as much as we could for as long as we are able. That was 4 1/2 years ago. So, at 59 I left. It's been a blur since. We travel most of the time, putting 45K miles on the car in 2023. Camping, hamfests, and cruising eat up most of our time. We're only home now for a few weeks before heading out to Orlando for the Hamfest. Then busy until after Dayton when we go up to the woods in northern AZ where it's much cooler. Then Huntsville, back to the woods, and home mid October. There are always a ton of things to do around the property when we finally get home. So, right now, my plan is to get back on 8 khz on this Fall when we get home for a while. Sorry to get so long winded.
WH2XXP is running 300 mw to the 100' top loaded antenna. I'm using a home brew copy of the QRP Labs U3s. I think there's a BS170 for the final. I haven't been able to kill it even with storms, critters eating the connection to the tower, etc. It just keeps going.
Good to hear from you,
Ward K7PO

    On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 06:04:42 PM MST, jrusgrove at comcast.net <jrusgrove at comcast.net> wrote:

 Ward

Been a while ... glad
you're still reading the mail here.

Do you still have that beautiful 8.270 kHz loading coil? Any chance for an encore performance? Still amazed at the 'strong' signal you (and Dex) put in here a number of years back.

What's
XXP running for power these days?

Jay W1VD

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From: Ward K7PO via Lowfer <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
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Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Could This Be WH2XXP?

WH2XXP is in DM33nn, good catch!
Ward K7PO/WH2XXPTonopah, AZ

On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 03:46:11 PM MST, Gedas <w8bya at mchsi.com> wrote:

WOW, that just made my day !  Thanks Garry. Actually had quite a few
frames of it but thought it was a different LOWFER all this time.

That has to be my best DX so far. I wonder what the 6-digit grid might
be? It would be nice to know the exact distance.

Gedas, W8BYA EN70JT
Light travels faster than sound.....
This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

On 1/8/2024 5:21 PM, Garry wrote:
> Yes indeed!
>
> 73, Garry, K3SIW
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