My
Most Interesting Radio Contacts
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CALL | Freq. | Mode | Date | Details |
N0LX | 18.160 | SSB | 9Nov03 | Jake was operating pedestrian mobile while hiking near Golden Colorado, using an FT-817 rig at 5W, with a 1/2 wavelength wire antenna suspended by a helium balloon as he walked. |
W8ERI | 18.124 | SSB | 28Oct01 | This is Jim Widlar from Breckenridge Colorado. This was such an interesting contact because Jim's Dad, Walt Widlar, designed (among many other things), the Bird 43 Wattmeter. And, Jim's brother Bob was a true pioneer in Integrated Circuit Development, with a large part of his career spent at National Semiconductor where he was responsible for scores of innovative, ground breaking linear/analog IC designs (like the LM10, LM12, etc.). I'm sure that JIM himself has done many ground-breaking things too! |
N9ZRT | 18.160 | SSB | 03Mar01 | OK, Dave, this is getting ridiculas! Here's Dave operating from a country gravel road near Ames, Iowa, with a 1/4 MILE LONG wire antenna, 17g aluminum fence wire, suspended on plastic electric fence sticks. Too bad, not enough wind for a kite antenna. |
N9ZRT | 18.157 | SSB | 24Feb01 | Here's David up to interesting things again! This time, operating as Pedestrian Mobile in Appleton WI, running 10W into a hand-held pole-mounted loop with an Icom 706MkIIG on a handtruck! Hmm, what's next David??? |
N9ZRT | 18.162 | SSB | 13Jan01 | David was on a "PortaVenture", at the abandoned Quincy Copper Mine (www.quincymine.com) in Hancock MI. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this contact is that David was using a 10' PVC pipe filled with salt-water as his antenna. Now that's a first for me! |
WB3DYE/MM | 14.250 | SSB | 06Jan01 | Bob was operating from the radio room of the cruise ship Fascination, enroute to San Juan. |
K0ND | 18.150 | SSB | 30Sep00 | Bill (K0UB) was operating a demonstration station in the local shopping mall in Dickinson, North Dakota. |
N0ADQ | 21.381 | SSB | 16Oct99 | Charlie (WD0M) was the control op for a nice JOTA station. I spoke with 14 young scouts (Benjamin, Evan, Mario, Andrew, Kevin, Dan, Christopher, Eric, Justin, Micheal, Wilson, Sean, Ryan, and T-Boy). Lots of fun! |
9A4QV/MM | 18.142 | SSB | 5Sep99 | Adam was aboard a 800' container ship in the North Atlantic Ocean, Coordinates of: 39'N,45'W. |
W5RRR | 14.216 | SSB | 4Jul99 | This is the Amateur Radio Station that is in the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Cool for that reason alone! |
N4ZRA | 7.147 | CW | 23Jun99 | This was Ed's first ever CW QSO! To be honest, it was my first in a long time, and I purposely searched for someone that was sending slowly! |
W9DK
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14.246
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SSB
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25Apr99
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Eric was operating from the crewman's mess aboard the WWII submarine USS Cobia AGSS-245 in celebration of the Submarine Memorial Radio Room Reactivation Weekend. There were several other "subs" on the air that weekend, but this is the only one I worked. |
KB8YUR |
14.204 | SSB | 21Mar99 | This was a "Parade Mobile" station. John was operating from a float in a St. Patrick's Day parade in Bay City Michigan. It was 30F there, and you could here the marching band and crowd in the background. The float was from the KB8YUR Radio Club, and featured a large replica of an HT on board. Probably a first and last parade QSO! |
KC4AAA |
14.243 | SSB | 1Feb99 | Les was operating from the Amundson-Scott South Pole Station in Antartica. Maybe this one is not so uncommon, but it was pretty "cool" for me! |
N0GSG | 28.355 | SSB | 23Jan99 | Tom was in process of teaching a class on Amateur Radio in Kansas City, and providing a demonstration of HF SSB operation. I was lucky enough to be the "example". |
ZL9CI | 14.195 | SSB | 19Jan99 | OK, most DX-chasers probably worked the Campbell Is. DX-pedition, but it was still exciting for me to get through running barefoot into a dipole. |
WP3R |
14.182 | SSB | 5Jan99 | Angel was an interesting contact because he works at the world's largest radio telescope in Arricibo, Puerto Rico. He has some very interesting stories about the dish, and a really cool QSL card. |
KC1WM | 18.130 | SSB | 6Dec98 | Kim was piloting a 767-200 aircraft enroute from Los Angeles to JFK in NYC. He was cruising at 37,000ft, somewhere over Kansas when we spoke. Lucky for him, and me, the airplane was equipped for overseas travel (with HF gear), so he was able to pass some time talking to us on 17m. |
N4R |
14.282 | SSB | 21Nov98 | Rick was operating a special event station at the 10th annual NASCAR Days Festival in Randleman, NC (The home town of Richard Petty). Being a NASCAR fan, it was fun to make this contact, and to hear one of the Petty race cars go by on its way to the display area. |
WG1H/m |
3.686 | CW | 2Nov98 | Al was operating CW while driving his 18 wheeler home from NJ to New England. He had a key strapped to his thigh, and was copying everything from my fumble-fist in his head. |
VO1KC |
21.130 | CW | 7Oct98 | Nothing was terribly interesting about this contact with Derek in Newfoundland, except that he was my first CW contact ever. He had a lot of patience with me and my nervous fist. This contact was made while I was still KC2BOG. |