[CQ-Contest] A bit of nostalgia

[John Laney K4BAI]

N4PN used the same style QSL as did he and I for our first DX trip for 
CQ WW CW in 1967 as TG0AA from Guatemala.  73, John K4BAI

On 9/17/2025 4:29 PM, ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest wrote:
>   I thought DU7SV's QSL was the best design ever. I still do. It took me a long time but I got one.
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> I have one from VE7SV in the same style.
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> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
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>      On Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 04:17:07 PM EDT, W7TMT - Patrick <w7tmt at outlook.com> wrote:
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>   I stand corrected by several stations via private messages. The station in question was DU7SV not DS7.
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> I worked him on 15M with a Knight Kit Spanmaster regen rcvr and a new to me. DX40 feeding a dipole at perhaps 15 feet. I bought the DX40, which had a big dent in the front panel, for the sum of $12. It took me many hours over the course of several days using a powdered cleaner and water on a scrap of window glass to grind a crystal up into the 15M Novice segment from a freq well below it.
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> Tnx for the correction.
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> W7TMT
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> From: w1rm at comcast.net <w1rm at comcast.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 07:04
> To: 'W7TMT - Patrick' <W7TMT at outlook.com>; jimk8mr at aol.com; 'CQ-Contest Reflector' <cq-contest at contesting.com>; 'Art Boyars' <artboyars at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] A bit of nostalgia
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> No DX on 80.  I ventured to 40 once or twice, but that's all.  No 15, either.
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> Pete Chamalian, W1RM
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> From: W7TMT - Patrick <W7TMT at outlook.com<mailto:W7TMT at outlook.com>>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 9:23 PM
> To: w1rm at comcast.net<mailto:w1rm at comcast.net>; jimk8mr at aol.com<mailto:jimk8mr at aol.com>; 'CQ-Contest Reflector' <cq-contest at contesting.com<mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com>>; 'Art Boyars' <artboyars at gmail.com<mailto:artboyars at gmail.com>>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A bit of nostalgia
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> 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.
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> Those were the days.
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> 73
> Patrick, W7TMT
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A bit of nostalgia
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> Ya gotta love the busted calls.
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> Pete Chamalian, W1RM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+w1rm=comcast.net at contesting.com<mailto:cq-contest-bounces+w1rm=comcast.net at contesting.com>> On Behalf Of jimk8mr--- via CQ-Contest
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2025 8:57 AM
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com<mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com>>; Art Boyars <artboyars at gmail.com<mailto:artboyars at gmail.com>>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A bit of nostalgia
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>   I too often heard that K5BIJ call on the air.
> I also heard and called that K7HFX guy from CZ - was that Central Arizona?
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> 73 -  Jim  K8MR
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>      On Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 08:48:19 AM EDT, Art Boyars <artboyars at gmail.com<mailto:artboyars at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>   Writing up my 3830scores report for Sprint CW, I reminded myself of this story.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 73, Art K3KU
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