Oh what a night! Left coast - right coast and all in between

[VE7 Kilohertz]

Well, finally added some new contacts to my list tonight. I started calling CQ east coast at 8:30 pm local and picked up Joe KF0XV first, and then onto the following list. Signals were excellent tonight and no other activity that I could hear.

In no particular order, as there were so many, and apolgies if I missed anyone....

WB3HUZ - S7-9  good to work you Steve...finally
WA1QIX - 30 over most of the time. nice audio
K1KBW - good to work you too Bob, first time. S-4 but nice audio
W1GHW- first time Gary...about S3-4 sounds nice
N7AOK - Ralph - nise souding station and about s-9
K7YOO - BIG signal tonight Skip
KL7OF- about S-7 steve and good to hear you
W0GZV- about S-5
WA1KNX/7 - that's slash, not portable - about S-7 Dean
WA3QGD- Bill in Washougal, WA about S-4

Happy new year everyone!! It was a great evening of radio for me...about 6 hours tonight.

Paul
VE7KHz

www.qsl.net/ve7khz

[steve_qix]

Hi Paul,

Good to finally work you, too!

The conditions were perhaps the best I have ever seen on 75 meters.  The locals (guys 60 miles away) were strapping *AND* the west coast was strapping.  That doesn't happen very often.  Paul VE7KHZ and Skip K7YOO were the strongest folks from the West coast - so strong, in fact, that when Skip broke into the QSO, he was as loud as some of the locals, and for a moment, I was not sure that he was not somewhere in New England!!  Same with Dean, WA1KNX (who often operates from New England) - but was actually in Arizona.

I'm sure conditions to Europe were probably just as good.  I wonder if anyone over there was listening??

Talk later and Regards,

Steve

[WA1GFZ]

Dean was strapping on 3645 before he went up to '85.
I worked him with 100 watts.

[W1IA]

Was a pleasure working you Paul...Keith WA1HZK and I were blown away when you came in so strong the other night.

Brent W1IA

[k7yoo]

I guess the K7YOO call gotcha Steve--I am in Winona, MN. which is technically in the west--west of the Mississippi River by about 500 feet
Thanks for the good report anyway!
Great evening on the bands--I hope we can do a replay soon

Skip

[steve_qix]

I guess the K7YOO call gotcha Steve--I am in Winona, MN. which is technically in the west--west of the Mississippi River by about 500 feet
Thanks for the good report anyway!
Great evening on the bands--I hope we can do a replay soon

Skip

Hi Skip,

Of course I knew that DUHHHHHH  Guess I'm getting that old buzzard disease CRS (or something like that! )    Strapping sig nevertheless !!!

Talk soon, hopefully!

Regards,

Steve

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Great to work you Paul. The band must have been in really good shape. I realized today (as I was having trouble tuning up lower in the band around 3730), I was connected to my 160 meter coax fed dipole! Yes, I worked you with the 160 meter antenna. Sheesh. Bet you would have heard me better if I had the 75 meter dipole connected. Gotta love it.

[VE7 Kilohertz]

Great to work you Paul. The band must have been in really good shape. I realized today (as I was having trouble tuning up lower in the band around 3730), I was connected to my 160 meter coax fed dipole! Yes, I worked you with the 160 meter antenna. Sheesh. Bet you would have heard me better if I had the 75 meter dipole connected. Gotta love it.

Ya, I did that with my tuner once. I only have one antenna, the 160M full wave loop, with a balnaced balanced antenna tuner. It works beautifully!! Just need to remember to reset the thing back to 3870 once I am done on 160M.

Cheers and happy new year!!

Paul
VE7KHz