Katashi had a daughter who was going to school in Joliet, IL. at one time.
I was a member of the Joliet Amateur Radio Society. He came to one of our
meetings and demonstrated some 10 GHz equipment. So I got to meet him.
I worked a lot of DX as a Novice in 1967. Mostly on 15 meters, but some DX
hams came into the 40 meter Novice band once in a while. I worked a couple
South Africans and CO2BB (remember his banana boat swing on CW?) I don't
think I worked any KH6 on 40 as a Novice, but I did after I got my General.
I was a member of the ARRL CD (as an Intruder Watcher). I may even be in
your log. My call then was WA9UOT.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM 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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