First Japan Contact Today

[kd-5-bgt]

I was surprised when I made a call to JJ-2-LPV and he replied right back....was on 17 meters at about 4:45 PM centeral time signal report was a 5/6 to 5/7 both ways

Not to bad for 100 watts through a ocf windom at 38 feet

Gogo Icom power !!

 

[Robb]

Congrats!

Thanks for that tip!
I found JJ2LPV on 18.124mhz and made a 5/7 contact both ways. That was with 50 watts on a IMAX 2000.

 

[kd-5-bgt]

Grats Robb !! Nice contact...I am still hearing a few Japan stations at 6:30 centeral on 17 meters,scattered from about 18.120 to top of band

 

[wavrider]

Ja land likes to play on 15 meters also, worth monitoring.

Robb the more I study that Imax 2000, the more I am starting to like what I see, Friend has one and I could not believe the bandwidth when I swept it with the analyzer.

$ for $ that Imax is looking like it is one antenna that is hard to beat.

 

[Robb]

Ja land likes to play on 15 meters also, worth monitoring.

Robb the more I study that Imax 2000, the more I am starting to like what I see, Friend has one and I could not believe the bandwidth when I swept it with the analyzer.

$ for $ that Imax is looking like it is one antenna that is hard to beat.

I came to the same conclusion too.
It is practical for da money spent.
I'll be checking out 15m and 12m more often now; have logged some there. I've used it on 10m and 17m mostly so far. 11m too - of course.