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KB2VXA > 50MHZ 01.01.06 17:35l 69 Lines 3349 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: VK6BE's sick meters
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From: KB2VXA@NJ2AR.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
To : 50MHZ@WW
Hi Babalooie and all,
Consider yourself lucky I took that name from a cartoon and didn't call
you Bababooie and leave you to figure out why. (;->)
Now do you live in a Faraday cage or do you hold the world's VHF DX
record? At this point I can't decide whether you're the man with two
mouths or you qualify for the Darwin Award on other criteria. Well, you
sure mention Darwin enough so frankly you have me wondering, especially
since a short while ago you once again mentioned poor propagation and
threatened to brain me if I brought up that Faraday cage again which
naturally I did.
Since Santa didn't bring me a properly working brain for Christmas and in
my confused state couldn't hook it up if he did, please have mercy on
what little sensibility I have left. Oh, we used to listen for the video
buzz of the Irish TV stations using them as beacons for the 6M band and I
have worked TA myself using 100W PERP so I am familiar with the magical
properties of the band. I also worked up and down the coast QRP on 2M FM
before getting my Icom wonder box so I know what is possible and what is
a stretch of the imagination. Then too having been a DXer for more years
than I have been licensed I heard about those amazing reception reports
but I realize they're far from commonplace and happened at a time when
propagation was phenominal, not likely to happen again in anyone's
lifetime.
What I didn't mention until now, another reason why I found that 5,000
mile reception of a VHF QRP signal so ludicrous is that VHF propagation
was struggling to come in from the south up the coast at the time and I
have NEVER heard or heard OF such phenominal DX coming from the west here
on the East Coast. The general concensus is it's not impossible to get
your WAS on 2M from Chicago but fairly impossible from New York or San
Francisco.
Now I can't actually brag because I never made contact but a month prior
I heard a CQ on 6 from Hawaii that for some odd reason went unanswered
(except for me aparantly) and the operator gave up. Not so great DX was
one CQ I wish even more I could have connected with was my friend CO2KK
in Havana Cuba, but that's of course for more personal reasons. Now here
comes the brag, I'm looking at a QSL dated 28-10-99 from LU9HUP in
Cordoba Argentina with a 5-9 report which BTW is also the true (I don't
believe in giving all 5-9 reports like some do) report I gave Mario.
Funny, I've never heard Australia despite the fact the most prodigious DX
seems to come out of a Faraday cage Down Under. Then there was the famous
Battle of the Bands VK6BE vs. W0RLI which BTW made me jealous, I simply
can't compete with the big guns.
OK, enough of that, after being up late last night playing radio New
Year's Eve my poor tired brain cells are protesting so I'll crawl back in
my Faraday cage and shut the door for a well deserved rest. Have a happy
day after New Year, at least I'm still aware of the date/time
differential.
73 de Warren, KB2VXA@NJ2AR.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
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