[MRCA] 60-meters R.I.P.

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 12:32 AM 3/5/2012, B Smith wrote:
>Did get CW contacts with W8AU and KB8AZS, on the new ch 3 and 1 to 2
>minuntes after the "the midnight hour",

Yes, at midnight the pileup began, at least on channel 3.  I joined in the fray
calling Dale KW1I and lo and behold, he answered me! =-O  Then Breck.
I also called K2ORS but no answer, either.

After about 15 minutes things settled down.   By tomorrow things will
be back to normal again...or close to it.   The "newness" of this mode
expansion will have worn off.

>Thought the group on 3675 was interesting, nice to just talk back and
>forth. Dale had a booming signal, u were good,
>Dean made it from Florida, Perry was fairly loud, Alex was in and out.
>And of course we heard WF2U, he was on early and ready to go.
>Nice mix of SSB suppressed carrier and AM with carrier but
>disappointed  that we did not hear
>at least one  CW station,

Was happy you heard my TCS.  Was tempted to plug the key in
when you asked about CW but I had already checked in on AM...

73,
Perry