Topband: FW: 3B9EME

[Charlie Young]

Regarding 3B8CF, I had a confirmed 160 CW Q with him on 31 Jan 2009 but have not heard him on 160 in subsequent years. 
 
73 Charlie N8RR 
 
> From: charlie-cunningham at nc.rr.com
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:31:34 -0400
> Subject: Topband: FW:  3B9EME
> 
> 
> 
> -----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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