West Coast on 75

[K9ACT]

Around 0400Z I head some stations on 3880 that all sounded like 6's so I fired up the big rig and threw in my call and was welcomed into a roundtable.  I could copy almost everyone but no one except W6 Oscar Meyer used phonetics so I had some trouble sorting them out.  Just about everyone could hear me and a few said Q5.

This was most amazing as I had only once before even been acknowledged by a six.

Some of the stations acknowledged were WB6YEC, WA6HCF?, W60M, K6OI, and N7UA near Seattle.  There were others but I could not get the calls.

They are involved in a group at California-AM.com

Great bunch and great fun,

Jack

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

I'd think you would work west coast pretty easily and often from your mid-western location, Jack. Sorta like the northeast working 4 and 5 land.

There's a group down on 80m as well that show up from time to time. I got the impression they were OTs who are mainly on SSB but once or twice a week fire up their old AM gear and spend the night on AM. I worked them 2-3 months back, fairly early in the evening compared to the night I worked KO6NM and the gang last year.

[K9ACT]

I'd think you would work west coast pretty easily and often from your mid-western location, Jack. Sorta like the northeast working 4 and 5 land.

Does not seem to work out that way.  In the year and a half I have been back on the air, I have only heard the West Coast once or twice and only one confirmed contact. 

Makes me want to take another look at a Beverage.  Receiving is more than half the problem but my property is oriented the wrong way.  A North/South one would be easy but not much use.

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