Congrats...great story! Cecil K5DL
Sent from my iPad > On Feb 12, 2020, at 9:24 PM, Carl Mannle <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [QRP-L] HU1DL German DXpedition in El Salvador > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 06:50:33 -0500 > From: Bobby Drummond <[email protected]> > Reply-To: QRP-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > To: QRP-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > > > > According to their QRZ page, this group's DXpedition is about to end (they > show on their page that they will be active until Feb 13th) > > Couldn't sleep well last night, so I got up very early and managed to catch > them before sun was up locally on the 160 meter band using the homebrew > tube transmitter and the Heathkit VF-1 VFO. I had heard them on some other > bands recently but wasn't ever able to work them due to the competition in > the pile ups they created. > > It was great to work them this morning, luckily, before they shut down > their DX operations. I rarely get a chance to work El Salvador* and to > work this one on 160 meters with the homebrew transmitter rig was an extra > thrill. This also let's me add another country to my 160 meter countries > list. > > * third contact with El Salvador - once on 30 meters, once on 12 meters and > now once on 160 meters in a 9 year span) > > -- > 73 de AK4JA > ______________________________________________________________ > QRP-L mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/qrp-l > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
