Hi Bob,
As a 13 year old high school freshman in 1954, I found myself on 160 because
the homebrew rig I had wouldn't oscillate above 75 meters and that band was
full of AM kilowatts. Trouble was, my war surplus Super Pro was a version
without 160, so I was using an old parlor console radio that had some
"shortwave"
bands on it. Boy, talk about lack of bandspread! Anyway, I got interested in
what was on CW, so I borrowed my mothers AC/DC table radio from the kitchen and
sat it on the old console. Then I tuned the table radio so that its local
oscillator would beat with incoming CW on the big old console. It took all I
could
do to keep up with the drift of those old radios during a QSO. Actually, I
worked my first "DX" that way. It was VE2LI, and W1BB mentioned it in his 160
Bulletin! I still have that card. The rest of the setup was a pair of 6L6's and
a 100' longwire up 20'.
>I wonder how many there are who qualified but never applied for ARRL >DXCC
>(I could not bring myself to trust the cards to the postal system).
>Bob VE7BS
I hosted a 160 Hospitality Suite at Stouffer's in Dayton each year in the
late 70's/early 80's. One year when we had a big crowd including lots of DX and
W1BB, a 160 DXCC chart was posted on the wall. It had all known holders at the
time, and as I remember, there were between 15 & 20 calls on it. A few of us
brought our cards and found that we qualified. I have never submitted my
cards. I guess I've always thought that working DX on 160 is sorta like making
love......I enjoy the pursuit & seduction a lot more than proclaiming to the
world
how many times I've succeeded.
.
Good Hunting, Barry, W9UCW
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