Congratulations. Great stuff. 73, David WD5BZN
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 26, 2015, at 9:00 PM, Michael Rapp via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > My giddiness cannot be expressed in words. :) > > I just worked Reunion Island, which is just off the coast of Madagascar, > 10,000 miles away. This is part of the world I had long given up hope of > ever reaching! > > I mean, we're on the downward slope of the solar cycle, I live in an RF-noisy > neighborhood, and I'm using stealthy and highly compromised antennas. (In > fact, the antenna I used wasn't even my wire vertical antenna, which has > succumbed to the elements. This was off my temporary inverted-V dipole at > sixteen feet....which I nearly took down this morning...I'm glad I didn't!) > > Yes, of course, the mode was JT65 (20 watts)....and FR1GV has a decently high > Yagi for 20 meters that did the heavy lifting, but the fact remains that I > tickled something on the other side of the planet and it tickled me back. > That is absolutely magical. > > (Current DXCC: 101 worked, 97 confirmed.) > > 73, > > -- > /*/-=[Michael / KT5MR]-=/*/ > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
