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Weekend goofing off
99 Hobbies
English - September 23, 2006 18:09 - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHobbies Leisure ham radio kz1o communications emcomm repeaters ssb rtty packet psk31 Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This is another short podcast. We'll get back to the 'standard' 99Hobbies format soon, but first, this one made me laugh out loud, and I wanted to post this while I had the chance.
This weekend I made a new friend, Jon, from Iceland. Jon has made over 600 QSOs during the Scandinavian Activity Contest JUST during THIS WEEKEND! ( see http://www.sk3bg.se/contest/sacnsc.htm ).
BACKGROUND: I'm tuning through the band and hear Jon ( http://www.qrz.com/callsign/TF3ZA ) calling CQ, so I give him a call. No sweat, easy copy on both sides. He answers me, and I log Iceland, both signals very strong. Very cool. I spot him to the DX network, and a few guys call him. Maybe three people call him. My guess is that most people think they would never be able to penetrate a pile-up for Iceland.
But Jon is calling CQ so often, and no one answers him, that I thought I should make a phone call and see if my friend Scott can work him. Scott lives in a condo, and he doesn't have the luxury of big antennas. In fact, he is not allowed to have any antennas that even would work on 20 meters.
When I called Scott today, he was in a meeting at work. But he answered, and actually went out to his car and gave it a try. He got Jon on his third try.
And then he went back to work.
I think we have our priorities set just fine, don't we?
Oh, and by the way, if you don't think you can make the contact, you should probably give it a try anyway.
73,
Dave
KZ1O