Topband: FW: 3B9EME

[Charlie Cunningham]

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Cunningham [mailto:charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:24 AM
To: 'garry at ni6t.com'
Subject: RE: Topband: 3B9EME

Hi, Garry

Well, your e-mail prompted me to look up the QSO with Jacky. It was January,
1, 1987, according to my log.  The call that I had at that time was N4BZX,
but I later recovered my old K4OTV call via the vanity call system.

I remember working 3B9R - but not on 160. 

73,
Charlie, K4OTV

-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Garry
Shapiro
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:06 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: 3B9EME

You did not say exactly how many years ago you worked Jacky on 160. In 1999,
after a DXpedition to 3B9 in which Jacky was a participant, the
homeward-bound DXpeditioners (including myself) were at Jacky's house in
Mauritius, standing on his roof and enjoying a beer. Jacky pointed to the
house and lot next door and related how, before the lot was developed, he
had used it for 160m. I don't think he has replaced that long-last antenna.
I, already a rabid topbander, was of course disappointed by that turn of
events.

As 3B9R, we had  erected a Titanex with 60 radials on a soccer pitch and had
a kW. We worked lots of Europe, but only a handful of NA stations on the
east coast, on one evening. No west coast at all.

Garry, NI6T

On 9/9/2013 6:39 PM, Charlie Cunningham wrote:
> Wow!  That's a good one!!  I worked Jacky, 3B8CF many years ago on 160,
but
> never 3B9!  Lowest bands I've ever worked 3B9 were 40 and 30 m.   I worked
> Jacky just before sunset here in Raleigh NC!  Worked him with the 
> FT-757 GX that I had back then, with a GG 4-400A afterburner doing the 
> best it could - about 450 W to my inverted L with the submerged 
> radials in the lake! :-)
>
> Charlie, K4OTV
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of 
> Mike Waters
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 9:30 PM
> To: topband
> Subject: Topband: 3B9EME
>
> 3B9EME has been calling CQ (listening up ~1) on 1822 for over an hour. 
> But they can't seem to hear very well.
>
> At one time, they were S7 here in SW Missouri. Someone tell them to 
> put up a Beverage antenna. :-)
>
> 73, Mike
> www.w0btu.com
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