[Milsurplus] QRP Military Radio Magic

[howard holden]

Wow Rob, sure been a very long time! Hope all is well with you. The TRC77 sounded great! Such a good radio. We certainly stretched the "limits" of the TRC77 with our 2365 miles distance. Good thing I didn't have the filter in on the -530 otherwise I'd have never heard you. But I never start out with the filter in. Too much to miss. 

Nice to hear you, don't stay a stranger! Maybe CU in the next Classic Exchange om Oct 20. 

73, Howie WB2AWQ

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From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net <milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of Rob Flory <farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2024 4:46 AM
To: milsurplus; mrca
Subject: [Milsurplus] QRP Military Radio Magic

Hi,

I have been having fun with a TRC-77 set up with progRocks by Anthony N3KCB.

This morning radio magic smiled on me as I turned to one of my 2 40m channels and heard old military radio buddy Howie WB2AWQ calling CQ from Nevada.

It took a few tries to get his attention, but luckily Howie knows how to use RIT and he found me with his TS-530s, a rig I used to run also.

Howie had to work a little bit but I repeated a few key items and we had a 20 minute ragchew.  It was so cool.

Will have to look into military packset CW frequencies for 80 and 40.  Naturally one of my 80m channels is 3558 and for the time being I am on 3522 where I like to listen to the QRQ guys.

RF