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eHam Forums / Elmers / RE: Does Your Next of Kin.........
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on: December 13, 2012, 06:57:56 PM
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Not always. A couple of years ago I found a Yaesu FT920 on ebay from an estate sale. It had the FM board, an external speaker, and a desk mic. There were a few scratches on it, but it worked fine. The Buy It Now price was $220. Couldn't hit the button quick enough on that one!
John AF5CC
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eHam Forums / Elmers / RE: IRC's
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on: December 12, 2012, 12:36:04 PM
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You can buy foreign stamps to put in a SASE to the DX. Bill Plum sells them. See the reviews of his service here on eham.net
John AF5CC
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: Any Station Changes Planned for 2013?
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on: December 12, 2012, 12:33:39 PM
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Hope to get a small beam up again. Found a MA5B at a good price, now need to find a rotor at an equally good price. Might try to get a rig with UHF and a beam up again to play on the satellites again also.
John AF5CC
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: DX Year in Review - 2012
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on: December 10, 2012, 10:14:56 AM
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2 ATNO here in 2012-7O and E4, which is better than most recent years-other than getting "newly created countries" like the 4 PJs in 2010. 7O and E4 have both been aruond for a while.
Did get quite a few new band countries, like 5T and ZL9 for 30m, TT on 15m, D2 on 17 and 20m, and lots of new stuff on 12m and RTTY.
Lets hope 2013 is even more productive-but we will see.
John AF5CC
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: Old QSO's I should have sent for
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on: December 10, 2012, 10:09:53 AM
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SV5TS was one of the first entities I really made a plan to work. I noticed he came on 20m SSB around the same time and frequency every evening, so started planning my evenings around being on 20m at that time. Finally paid off after a few weeks. That was in 2000. Mike, SV5BYR is very active now and has given me a new band country on several of the higher bands.
Back in the mid 80s I worked a J49 station and it took me a while to realize that it was Crete and not just Greece. The 9 in the district position finally opened up my eyes on that one so I sent off for a QSL. I think it was Balder DJ6SI operating from Crete.
John AF5CC
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: Old QSO's I should have sent for
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on: December 09, 2012, 08:34:17 PM
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and in my stupidity as a young dxer, I pu pu-ed SV5TS as being for Greece and not the Dodecanese Islands...Ya snooze, ya lose!.....
I hope you haven't passed up on SV2ASP CQing with no callers because you thought it was "Just Greece" John AF5CC |
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: Old QSO's I should have sent for
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on: December 09, 2012, 05:17:58 PM
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A few years ago I was able to get 6Y5NR/KP1 confirmed from a 1985 QSO. Found a few other operators listed on the QSL on the QSL gallery, and contacted them. One of them had the logs and a few old QSLs so we got it worked out that way.
Good luck, wish I had a few more Wake Is. QSO-have only 1, on 20m SSB.
John AF5CC
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eHam Forums / Elmers / RE: Kenwood TS-180s question
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on: December 08, 2012, 09:22:24 PM
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You have SSB filters of identical width. I would guess the additional one is in the transmit chain. Yaesu did that also with the FT847
John AF5CC
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eHam Forums / DXing / RE: IRCs are HISTORY
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on: December 08, 2012, 07:57:35 PM
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If the post office is broke, why in the heck did they ever come out with forever stamps? Don't they realize they are losing money with them? I buy some for 45 cents and use them when postage goes to 46 cents. They are losing a cent a letter then. No wonder our country is so broke, those in charge have no economic common sense.
John AF5CC
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eHam Forums / Contesting / RE: ARRL 10 Meter Contest This Weekend
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on: December 08, 2012, 07:55:00 PM
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Sunspot number is currently 29, that is horrible for this part of the solar cycle. Never expected the 10 meter contest to be this poor 6 months away from the predicted solar peak. Today is my birthday! Found lots of other ways to celebrate it-took a couple of nice bike rides, etc.
Did work CE, HK, PY, PJ2, KH6 and heard D4 on, but no luck with Cape Verde yet. Worked several Mexican states also. Tomorrow is another day.
John AF5CC
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