[SixClub] Talk about timing!

[KA2AEV at aol.com]

Way to Go LolliPop!
 
 
In a message dated 6/28/2010 12:31:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
aa5jg at yahoo.com writes:

FM25 has  long been a blank spot in my 6 meter grid map.  It looks like it 
contains  part of the Outer Banks of North Carolina and some (probably 
marshy)  mainland.  I can't recall even hearing a station on from FM25  before.

This morning I was on pingjockey.net getting some things set up  to run 
WSJT (If necessary) for the K5N expedition to DL88.  WB3BEL was  logged in 
there and listed his grid as FM25 but it didn't click at that  time.  He had a 
successful 6m QSO with EM13 which is just to my  southeast.  I then go to the 
DX cluster and see WB3BEL being spotted on  50.153 and as being in FM25.  
Suddenly that clicks!  He was just on  pingjockey.net.  I go there and send a 
message to him but he has logged  out.  Have the radio on 50.153 but not 
hearing a thing.   

Figure it is time for the morning shower.  It is already 11 am  but hey, I 
am on summer break.  Can't do that, the XYL is in the bathroom  but I do 
hear my Daughter's Guinea Pig, Lollipop, squeaking loudly because I  haven't 
given him his daily carrot yet, so I go to the kitched to get  them.  Feed 
Lollipop one carrot and realize it is pretty big, so I figure  I will save the 
other piece for later since we are almost out of  carrots.  I walk through 
the shack on the way to the kitched to put the  other carrot back in the 
refrigerator and and suddenly on a Es burst I hear  WB3BEL weakly calling CQ!  
Work him quickly, he gives me a 52, and he is  about the same here.  By the 
end of the QSO he is back in the noise and  gone, but I have FM25 in the log!

Out pets give us many wonderful  things in life, mine just gave me a rare 
grid square!  

73s John  AA5JG




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