[SEDXC] K7C STORY

[Gary McConville]

Tnx Mike,

Heard them on 17M cw - S7 to S9 and at first thought it was a local. 
Gave up after 45 minutes of split.

Gary - WB4SQ 

--- K4PI <k4pi at earthlink.net> wrote:

> For once something went right.  I work evenings so I am not home when
> the 
> high bands open to the Pacific.   The only hole in my Kure list is 24
> Mhz. 
> I had been watching them all week and seeing it was tough for the GA
> crowd 
> on 24 Mhz.  Friday and Saturday being my days off I had made plans to
> be in 
> front of the radio for hours calling them during the sundown time
> period. 
> About 2045 I warmed up the amp and was getting everything all set up
> just in 
> case.  The earliest they had ever been spotten on 12 was 2049.  I was
> 
> setting the xcvr up for the CW band and get ready to set the SSB freq
> in the 
> other register when I heard someone calling CQ on 24892 about 559 and
> darn 
> if it wasn't the K7C calling CQ over and over listening simplex.  One
> call 
> and I logged him.  I had seen on their DXA page where they had been
> on 30, 
> 20 and 17 and the 30 light was out but no light on 12 so I was
> wondering 
> maybe it was a pirate.  I was logged into DXA and talking to a friend
> on the 
> phone when all of a sudden my call and pops up for 12 M logged and
> the 12 M 
> light was on.  In the log at 2051 and I put him out and a few other
> stations 
> showed up but he went right into the noise and I never heard him
> again until 
> later around 2300 when I came back into the shack.  Sometimes things
> do work 
> right.  GL.. 
> 
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