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After Dayton I took a short motorcycle vacation. While up on Mt Mitchell in North Carolina I worked a guy on 146.52 using an Icom 92AD with rubber duck on 5 watts to Wilkesboro NC. He said it was around 95 miles.
gcgrotz said:After 35 years of hamming, and trying off and on for many of those years, I finally worked Japan. Yes Japan. I know everybody else in the world has worked them and I was the last guy on the band without a JA QSO but I finally got one on 20 the other morning and exchanged 57 reports. Most of the time I can barely hear them. This was on a horizontal 40 meter full wave loop at 35' with 600 watts.
I also worked that recent Yemen expedition and that was exciting but I had never expected I'd ever work a place that hadn't issued a ham license in over 20 years. Japan was better because I had been trying for so long!
73 and good DX.
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Got bored to day, went out to the club station here in Edmonton and worked a whole bunch of stations on 29.600Mhz. Even with some deep fading and QRM from at least one remote base, the best contact was with a guy in Ohio that heard me calling CQ on his scanner with an in-door antenna... Guess when the band is open it is really open. I managed to work a bunch of states/provinces:
Quebec
Ontario
New Brunswic
Ohio
Kentucky
Penselvania
Tennessee
Arkansas
New York
Illinois
Mississippi
Had a few of the guys give me 10+60 signal reports, I was running a 756 Pro3 barefoot with the 4 element beam pointing at an azimuth of about 120 deg. most of the afternoon. When I tried looking for some western US/Western Canada, I kept having to swing the beam back around to work more guys in the Mid-west/Eastern Seaboard.
The FM DX today was the Caymen Islands.
I had a few mobiles in the mix as well.
All in all a great lazy afternoon here in Edmonton