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KBKZ2105

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Re: Your proudest moment as a QRP operator....
« Reply #45 on: February 12, 2021, 12:21:39 PM »

Good post Doc. 
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KD7RDZI2

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Re: Your proudest moment as a QRP operator....
« Reply #46 on: February 22, 2021, 12:46:26 PM »

Proudest moment? When I made a QSO with the designer of my rig! Try to make one with the Big Three!
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Re: Your proudest moment as a QRP operator....
« Reply #47 on: February 22, 2021, 05:52:58 PM »

Operating with my Dave Benson Small Wonder 40 meter one watt in the NAQCC QRPp Milliwatt contest, contacted a station in Arizona, earning me a "1000 Miles Per Watt" certificate. 
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Re: Your proudest moment as a QRP operator....
« Reply #48 on: February 25, 2021, 06:05:35 PM »

Im up to 18 DXCC entities on 160 CW with 100 milliwatts and around 130 with 5W and 325 with 1200W.  ALL on CW.

Good antennas help. It took over 30 years to do 100 with 5W.

I no longer submit anything for DXCC as it is such a meaningless sham.

Carl

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K1FBI

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Re: Your proudest moment as a QRP operator....
« Reply #49 on: February 25, 2021, 09:49:56 PM »

Im up to 18 DXCC entities on 160 CW with 100 milliwatts and around 130 with 5W and 325 with 1200W.  ALL on CW.

Good antennas help. It took over 30 years to do 100 with 5W.

I no longer submit anything for DXCC as it is such a meaningless sham.

Carl

Cripes Im not that far from 90 myself......drool.....drool

Carl
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K3UIM

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Re: Your proudest moment as a QRP operator....
« Reply #50 on: February 26, 2021, 09:40:47 AM »

WOW! Color me "Wrong"!! I figures you for way less than 90. 50's maybe.  ::)
Charlie
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Re: Your proudest moment as a QRP operator....
« Reply #51 on: March 11, 2021, 02:23:26 AM »

I live on the edge of the Southern Wilderness on the island of Tasmania.  Recently, I logged my 100th entity @ 5W with simple wire antennas suspended in trees and using phone and CW only. I’m on the edge of the earth, my knuckles are white, and that 100th entity gave me the greatest thrill. 
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K0UA

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Re: Your proudest moment as a QRP operator....
« Reply #52 on: March 11, 2021, 06:06:04 AM »

May 31, 1980:

I was playing around on 6M with my Icom IC-502 (which I still have and occasionally use) and thought I heard something coming through on the rig's extendable whip antenna.  It was very faint so I hooked it up to my 100' centerfed dipole through a homebrew antenna tuner and the band came alive - an opening like I hadn't heard in quite a while.  I worked several stateside stations with my 3W PEP signal in the space of an hour until the band closed down.

At 0215 UTC I worked Bill Tynan, W3XO, in Silver Spring, MD.  OTs will remember Bill as longtime Contributing Editor of QST's "World Above 50 MHz" column and for his work with AMSAT.  Bill passed away in 2018.

During that same opening I also worked W3TFA in Takoma Park, MD (I worked a lot of East Coast stations that evening).  What made this CW QSO memorable was that he was using a Heathkit HW-29A (the "Sixer") modified to transmit CW, a Nems-Clarke G-110E receiver and a 3-el Yagi.  So we were pretty evenly matched and that made the contact all that much more memorable.

Ah, sunspots...those were the days...

Six meters is open every year starting in late April or May until mid to late August for Sporadic E.  This was the mechanism you utilized. NO sunspots needed. Your QSO's were not F2 . So get ready for Sporadic E in 2 or 3 months. I will point out that in the last couple of years the majority of people are on 6 meter FT8 vs CW or SSB.  There is also a smaller weaker E season starting about December 1st and running thru January. But it is much weaker usually.
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Re: Your proudest moment as a QRP operator....
« Reply #53 on: March 11, 2021, 06:07:41 AM »

I live on the edge of the Southern Wilderness on the island of Tasmania.  Recently, I logged my 100th entity @ 5W with simple wire antennas suspended in trees and using phone and CW only. I’m on the edge of the earth, my knuckles are white, and that 100th entity gave me the greatest thrill.
I was so happy when I made a contact with Tasmania; only happened once. Unfortunately the OP didn't use LoTW so that stinks.
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