[CQ-Contest] A bit of nostalgia

[John Geiger]

Worked JH1WIX on 15m for my first Japan.  That was on 15m with 100 watts, though.  Why was your HW16 limited to 1 watt?  That was the first rig I ever used also, at our junior high club station.

73 John AF5CC 

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-------- Original Message --------
On 9/17/25 8:30 AM,  <kq2m at kq2m.com> wrote:

>  
>  I became a Novice in August 1973.  Using an HW-16 running 1 watt out to
>  a 40 M dipole at ~ 15' at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, DX was hard
>  to come by.  But thankfully LU5HFI (K3ZO) and JH1WIX frequented the
>  Novice bands back then and gave many Novices their first DX qso's.  They
>  often had pileups, but persistence and learning the timing of how and
>  when to call eventually paid off with qso's with both of them.
>  
>  It was only 2 months after I worked Fred, LU5HFI, when I read in a NY
>  Times article that he had been shot and badly wounded while in
>  Argentina. Quite a shock for a 12 year old kid.
>  
>  RIP my friends. Thank you for your kindness and your qso's.
>  
>  73
>  
>  Bob, KQ2M
>  
>  
>  On 2025-09-16 20:23, W7TMT - Patrick wrote:
>  > DX in the Novice bands?  I’ll bet many of you have DS7SV in those old
>  > logs. He spent massive amounts of time giving Novices their 1st serious
>  > DX Q’s. QSL card had a nice green background with his calling in a
>  > white/cream script font across the face. Great and very patient op.
>  >
>  > Those were the days.
>  >
>  > 73
>  > Patrick, W7TMT
>  >
>  
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