Maybe next time I think about doing a trip to a never before heard grid I should tell everyone who wants it to “take a hike”. There are a few selfish morons out there who are reminded time and time again and continue to disrupt the hobby for the rest of the responsible users out there. It was a wonderful morning flight down to CO36 this morning before work to hand out this new grid to a grand total of four people on AO-92 and SO-50. I also really enjoyed listening to nothing for several minutes to discover AO-7 had been killed by an idiot, ruining the chance for anyone outside the very limited range of those FM passes to get the grid.
73, Gabe AL6D/VE6NJH
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 4:10 PM R.T.Liddy k8bl@ameritech.net wrote:
There are only a few folks doing SAT-CW on a regular basis. It shouldn't be difficult to figure out who they might be. Maybe it's already known and someone talked with the person and they said "Take a hike!!". Or, maybe not. I can't imagine the person remains unknown. GL/73, Bob K8BL P.S. BTW, can you believe AO-7 was launched in 1974? !!!!!!
On Monday, April 1, 2019, 7:54:00 PM EDT, Mike Diehl <diehl.mike.a@gmail.com> wrote:
There I was standing on the side of the road on a breezy afternoon around 1930z. I had a piece of 3/4” 6061 in one hand and my PTT switch in the other with only my IC-910H at minimum power to keep me warm. I was listening to the sweet sound of noise at 145.938 MHz with an occasional “one two” to keep my manual tuning on track while I awaited for the sweet DX to get into the footprint.
Then you entered the scene pounding away with your CW and sweeping around demanding attention. You were as strong as an ox. You were splattering throughout the whole 60kHz of the passband, how could anyone miss you? And then as suddenly as you appeared there was utter silence. I mean, with that much power how could you not bring any bird to it’s knees?
Perhaps we can meet again sometime, maybe try QRP for a less dramatic entrance and we can have a chance to have a conversation.
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