My first HF QSL goes to W1AW Portable 7 [1] in Oregon on 7.170.0Mhz. Contact made at 2014 September 07 at 0349 UTC. The W1AW portable calls in 2014 are celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the ARRL [2] and every state gets two one week whacks at a portable call.
Tonight’s station was located just west of Portland, Oregon. That makes it about 1500 miles station to station. So happy to know my piddling 100 watts off a vertical antenna without grounding radials can reach that far and get a 5/9 RST [3].
[1] http://www.codxc.org/new/page.asp?content=w1aw
[2] http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RST_code
w00t w00t…great job!
And then to really show off, PM1LPN calling CQ Contest–got it! That’s Indonesia on the 20 meter band. That’s approximately 9650 miles away from lil ol’ Council Bluffs, Iowa.
What the fuck you talking about? lol Ham radio?
yep….
my nerd…I love him so!
Thank you Elizabeth!! All those acronyms were killing me. lol
Off to bed!!
hahahaha…you should live with him!
night night…sleep well!
I have enough going on I don’t need Nick’s help, thank you!! lol
NIGHT!