Topband: 3B9EME

[Charlie Cunningham]

Hi, Garry

I did log a QSO, with 3B9R, 4/10/1999 on 15m CW. By then, I had recovered my
original K4OTV call from 1957. Over the years, I lost the K4OTV call,
because, back then, if we moved to a different call area, we had to get a
new call for the new call area. Later, I was W3EJN, and W9MXW.

When, I returned to Raleigh, in 1978, I had been off the air  for a couple
of years, but I attended a local hamfest, and passed the written test and 20
wpm code test and upgraded to Extra, and just took the call that they
assigned me, N4BZX.

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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