[CQ-Contest] Inaudible signals discussions

[Radio KØHB]

Served with a fellow in the Navy with ears like that.  RM2 George Munk(SK).  And he was best at it when about 75-percent in-the-bag.  

One night at about 0200 on USS Henley, docked at Piraeus, Greece (a notorious noisy RF black hole) I was trying to pass a long 5-letter coded message to NKA at Asmara, Ethiopia (now Eritrea).  I simply could NOT hear NKA responding to me. Nothing but white/pink noise to my ears.  Circuit was in my earphones and on an overhead loudspeaker in the shack.

George came back from a long evening ashore at John Bull’s tavern, a Sailor hangout on the waterfront, well on his way to a Fix Beer hangover.  Saw me struggling with NKA, listened to the speaker for a moment, told me to move aside.  He sat down and passed the whole message, including several requested repeats, as smoothly as if we were sitting next door to the NKA transmitter site.  Simply astounding.

73, de Hans, KØHB
"Just a boy and his radio"™

➢ I have been at a station where we had parallel earphones.
➢ 
➢ Some operators were logging QSOs when the guy sitting next 
➢ was hearing just noise.

➢ I have been logging QSOs when some others that came to

➢ the same frequency heard just noise when I was hearing the far far away three pointers.

73,
Jukka OH6LI
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