Mike:
Yeah, JT65 really reaches out there!
Gary K5AMH
On 12/26/2015 21:00, Michael Rapp via BVARC 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,
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