While not my first CB/11-meter contact, this was certainly the most memorable one. In fact, it was the one that made me decide to pursue my ham ticket.
One evening, (circa 1978) I was monitoring 27.4050 MHz USB with my pride and joy, a Royce 1-639 w/an Astatic mobile D-104 mic. My antenna was a Wilson V58 up abt 25 ft. I heard a weak signal that I now know to be have been fluttering. I made contact, exchanged signal reports and names, when she told me that her QTH was Japan. I don't think I really believed her but gave her my P.O. box anyway.
Well, approx. 3 weeks later, I received a QSL card with an odd return address, APO... something or other. I would later learn that she was a USAF "service-person" stationed at Kadena AFB on the island of Okinawa. That QSO w/12W is probably the reason I gravitated to QRP when I got my ticket. Simply amazing and somewhat "magical," what can be done with just a little bit of Rf and some wire.
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One evening, (circa 1978) I was monitoring 27.4050 MHz USB with my pride and joy, a Royce 1-639 w/an Astatic mobile D-104 mic. My antenna was a Wilson V58 up abt 25 ft. I heard a weak signal that I now know to be have been fluttering. I made contact, exchanged signal reports and names, when she told me that her QTH was Japan. I don't think I really believed her but gave her my P.O. box anyway.
Well, approx. 3 weeks later, I received a QSL card with an odd return address, APO... something or other. I would later learn that she was a USAF "service-person" stationed at Kadena AFB on the island of Okinawa. That QSO w/12W is probably the reason I gravitated to QRP when I got my ticket. Simply amazing and somewhat "magical," what can be done with just a little bit of Rf and some wire.
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