I'll jump on the end of this and report that I made my first contact as a General during last week's Spartan Sprint, after about a week or more of calling CQ in the evening. WA6AZP was calling CQ CQ SP pretty fast and it took me several rounds to a) copy his sign completely and b) get over my nerves enough to answer with my KX-1.
Between the fairly strong QSB and my poor antenna, he never heard my repeated QRS, so we went several more rounds before I got a strong "R R R" from him. He went on with the contest and I shut down and went into the house to calm my nerves :-) I'm working on my antenna setup now, looking for that second contact ... perhaps it will be more than 10 miles away! 73 de chris K6DBG _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
