West coast ...East Coast 75M QSO's FUN!!

[KL7OF]

Checked 3880kcs after dinner tonight and worked the breadth of the nation....Very cool stuff....Many 100 watt stations were heard...W0VMC and W9AD were the channelmasters...PE1MPH and the Euro Crew were listening....Waiting for the report.......It was a pleasure for me to hear all the AM sigs...


KC8VXD Dave Mich Globe 500
W1IA Brent Baltimore BIG sig
WD5BZA Arkansas
K5AYD Lum.... CASH, OK.... Apache
W2ZM Bob,,,,PennYan NY....LOUD!!
N4CSB 200 watts yaesu/3K Henry
WA1KNX Deano   ARIZ..
KB3AHE Frank...always readable good to hear
K7YOO skip...Detroit Vik II..!!!
W0VMC....Robert..Very Very Nice sigs
KD7YLV Tim WYO....!!!
W9AD...Dave Loud!
Ko6NM..Mike S Cal...Good to hear you..
W7MD Damon...Ariz..New Qth
K0COM..Mike Denver...
KK7FP Ashland ,OR

Sure was fun for me,,,,,,,,,,,,Steve KL7OF  Tum Tum ,WA

[The Slab Bacon]

Damn, Steve, you scooped me on this one! I got on just before going to bed to post it and you beat me to it!!  I started that qso from this side of the country. I put out a cq on an empty 3880 around 11:30, Brent answered my cq, Skip joined in and shortly after, all hell broke loose!!!!!!! It was really great to work you and Mike, I havent talked to either one of you in probably 2 years or so! It was AM coast to coast and also somewhat whirlwide with the europeans hearing many of us. In the list of stations that i worked I had calls fron all 10 call districts! We had absolutely no short skip, it was interesting that many stations couldn't hear each other because they were too close, I could hear everyone with armchair copy. It was also interesting that i could work them all with a 60' flat top up only 33'. What a great nite of radio. We covered the entire country!! At somewhere around 1:45 the band closed up tight and I could no longer hear anyone but a few on the east coast!
Best 73 to all that were in that very large group
de KB3AHE

Here is my list of stations worked:
W1IA
WA1KNX/7
KA2TRU
W2ZM
N3JUH
N4CSV
K5AYD
WD5BZO
KO6NM
K7YOO
KD7YLF
KL7OF
KC8VXD
W9AD
K0COM
W0VMC

[K6JEK]

Last night I was talking with some of the West Coast big guns when who should break in but Tim, WA1HLR.  This was around midnight out here so 3 AM in Maine.  For awhile Tim was even hearing Jerry, K6DU mobile.   Here is who I remember:

W6OAU, Scotty on his KW-1
W6IRD, Wayne on his wife's transmitter.  Checked out on account of lightning
WJ6W, Dave, 20V2 (earlier, Bob, K9EID, via Dave's transmitter and Skype)
KO6NM, Mike, Floor model transmitter
K6DU mobile,  Jerry near Fresno, ICOM 706,
WA1KNX/7, Channel Master Dean, vertical beam and something that produced RF.
WA1HLR, Tim running just 200 watts out of something
?, Al I missed Al.  I believe he was Al, on a 20V2 from the eastern time zone
K6JEK, me on the six hardest working FET's on the west coast (300 W, class E)

This was great fun.