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One of those QSOs….in a good way!
14 February 2012 | by .JPG)
I’ve mentioned before that some contacts really grab your imagination. This evening was one of those. Generally, over the last few weeks 10m has been closed by the time I have got to the car on the way home from work. However, this evening, when I switched on the 10m rig I could hear a station close to 28.400MHz where the rig was ‘parked’. As I drove over to the supermarket, I could hear W8ERN in Michigan working his way through a steady stream of callers. Driving through urban Didcot is quite noisy on HF, so I hadn’t really expected to hear any more on 10m by the time I had finished my shopping for a Valentine’s meal for Julie.
But as I drove away from the supermarket, with goodies in my shopping bag, I switched on the 10m rig and he was still there, if anything, stronger! To my surprise, Angelo, W8ERN heard ‘mobile’ as someone else called him and asked for the mobile. I called and was thrilled to get a 5/8 report from him.
We had a very easy QSO and I was able to explain that I was running around 10W from the Anytone AT-5555 to a CB whip on the car. Angelo told me about his website and I told him about this one!
Great to make my first inter-continental QSO from the car on 10m with the Anytone rig! Thanks Angelo!
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That’s awesome. Mobile HF is great; I have a lot of fun with it. The sun has taken a bit of a break lately, hopefully it’ll get going again. One of my best 10m contacts was from Texas to Japan. A few nights ago driving home from the local ham club I worked a ZL on 20m at around 9:30 pm. Not too bad, and there’s more fun in store as the cycle improves!