Hello Roger,
Time spent doing something you enjoy is not wasted time. :-)
And I enjoyed every minute of it, before advancing age and health took me
off the bands. That included sharing what I learned on a website.
73, Mike
W0BTU
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 2:35 PM Roger Kennedy <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
wrote:
>
>
> I guess I just find it strange that some people go to a an awful lot of
> effort to be able to work DX on Top Band . . . big antennas, often with
> phasing arrangements . . . a big Linear, sometimes modified to cover 160m .
> . . and all kinds of exotic Receiving antennas . . .
>
> And yet many of those people only come on a few times a year, ie only if
> there's some new island on the air, or possibly when there's a Contest.
>
> It just seems an awful waste to me !
>
> Anyway . . . there are several of us Europeans on Top Band calling CQ 3 or
> 4
> nights a week . . . and happy to work ANY DX station, no matter how many
> times we may have worked before !
>
> 73 Roger G3YRO
>
>
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