| This weekend i was determined
to talk to some HFPackers so I set up my 33 foot mast and attached a 40
meter dipole to it.
At 16:32Z I tuned to
21.437 and I heard Budd W3FF
talking to KJ6AP (not sure about the call. please correct me) KJ6AP was
S-Ø to S-1.
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W3FF
Budd
If you wonder How He got this way - Click on the photo to find out
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Budd was booming in at S-9
untill he turned his antenna North East then he dropped to S-5.
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W3VET
at the feedpoint.
Walking
stick with Radio Shack antenna attached in the background.
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At 17:Ø9Z, Budd signed
off and moved to 181.157.
During his Signing off I
could barely hear a station calling HFPack. It was Mohan! calling "CQ HFPack
this is VE7FM,
Portable mobile on Highway 19, Vancouver Island"
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on the photo's below to visit his site.
VE7FM
- Mohan
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Mohan and I chatted untill
he had to pull over because of traffic.
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SGC-2020
Portapack
LDG-Z-11
J-45
Key
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Then I Switched Frequency
to 18.157 and made my first HFPack contact at 17:55 with - - - - - MOHAN!
Again VE7FM
came thundering through with his S-Ø Signal at 5 watts. Very Cool!
I also had a QSO with W3FF
again.
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The
Truck makes a great support for the famous W3FF Dipole
Click
HERE or on the photo to find out how to make one for yourself!
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(Continued)
That afternoon at 21:1Ø, on 18.157, I had a contact with W4KVS
Kim, in Columbia, South Carolina. He was running 1ØØ watts
into an attic dipole. I told him about our group and invited him to join.
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Apache
Junction, Arizona. My QTH this weekend
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Then at ØØ:17,
April 15 in england but still the middle of the 14th here, I tuned to 21.437
and heard a station calling in CW
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.......CQ HFPACK DE
VE7FM .....
MOHAN AGAIN! WOW!
I returned his call but he
didn't hear me.
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The
stuff that dreams are made of.
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Then at ØØ:25
I heard HFPacker John K7RO, on his 40 meter dipole and Yaesu FT-817 at
5 watts. We talked for awhile and he switched on his 50 watt amp and His
signal went from S-Ø to S-5
Nice
Fence. I could hear a station from the south on Monday afternoon talking
to Budd with this setup using an outbacker antenna vise gripped to the
pole.
No
tuner and Good SWR but no one heard me at 4 watts.
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73 W3FF de W3VET AR
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