Congratulations! Awesome! 73 de --Bill, KG5FQX On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Gary Sitton via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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, > > -- > /*/-=[Michael / KT5MR]-=/*/ > > > _______________________________________________ > BVARC mailing > [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 > >
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