Interesting stories. I remember shortly after upgrading to general I was
working one of the CAM-AM contests (remember those) and worked AH6BK on 40m.
He sent his section, I asked for a repeat. He sent it again, I wondered why he
was laughing at me (HI HI). Then I realized that he actually was in Hawaii!
As someone who had just left the novice 40m band, didn't realize what sorts of
DX were possible on 40m. They were never in the 7100-7150 range.
Worked KH6IJ on 2m FM once when in Hawaii. Truly a gentleman!
73 John AF5CC
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On Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 at 10:06 AM, jimk8mr--- via CQ-Contest
<cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
> I too often heard that K5BIJ call on the air.
> I also heard and called that K7HFX guy from CZ - was that Central Arizona?
>
> 73 - Jim K8MR
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 08:48:19 AM EDT, Art Boyars
> artboyars@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
> Writing up my 3830scores report for Sprint CW, I reminded myself of this
> story.
>
> In the mid-1960s, in a CW CD Party, on 40M I was called by "K5BIJ". I sent
> him my report, but it took Katashe several tries for me to get his call
> correctly. I was astounded. Back then I didn't know it was possible to
> work Hawaii on 40M from Maryland.
>
>
> My antenna was a dipole. Pretty sure rcvr was my RME-4350 (maybe the "A"
> version), and that I had already upgraded the xmtr from the BC-459 to a
> second-hand Viking Ranger.
>
> 73, Art K3KU
>
>
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