ZL1CN makes first Pactor QSO with P5/4L4FN
On the evening of Thursday 18 April 2002 at 1025UTC I attempted to connect to G3NID by Pactor2 on 15m. There was no reply.
Imagine my surprise when the following appeared in my screen:
QRZ QRZ QRZ QRZ DE P5/QRZ QRZ QRZ QRZ QRZ
Well, this required a response, so I decided to call CQ
On my screen appeared the following:
*** CONNECTED TO 4L4FN
Well, I knew Ed was in North Korea and I had already worked him on 15m SSB. I also knew that SSB QSOs with Ed had been accepted by the ARRL as being valid for DXCC, but this did not apply to Pactor QSOs of course.
However, Ed and I had a good keyboard chat, during which he confirmed the following:
MY CONGRATS TO YOU AND TO MYSELF DUE TO ITS MY FIRST PACTOR QSO FROM P5, ...
Well that was, and still is, a big thrill and I hope we can do it again sometime.
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