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first skip contact

Posted: January 26th, 2014, 4:11 pm
by fatcat3
finally caught my first skip contact today. cheep bear foot mobile with a 102 from rock island tn to nw Oregon. WOOOO HOOOO

Re: first skip contact

Posted: January 26th, 2014, 5:26 pm
by silvereagle1
Congratulations fatcat on the contact. I wasn't as fortunate today but yesterday I made a few contacts. The most interesting one was a older gentleman that goes by dirty old man out of Idaho he is 77 years old and a talker. Fun to chat with. Turns out he and his wife is coming through Knoxville in the summer and wants to meet up on exit 112 for coffee. you'll meet some really nice people on DX.

Re: first skip contact

Posted: January 26th, 2014, 5:50 pm
by fatcat3
made that contact, now my radio is acting a fool. cant wait to get a 955 in my truck. was thinking it was my antenna install but changed it back over to the old one and still got problems.

Re: first skip contact

Posted: January 26th, 2014, 6:19 pm
by MDYoungblood
Congrats on the first, may many more come along.

3's

Greg

Re: first skip contact

Posted: January 26th, 2014, 6:56 pm
by Circuit Breaker
fatcat3 wrote:finally caught my first skip contact today. cheep bear foot mobile with a 102 from rock island tn to nw Oregon. WOOOO HOOOO
Cheap bare foot? It doesn't require power to work DX. I find the DX more rewarding when I use lower power. In fact, power isn't needed at all...just a good antenna. I've worked Australia with 12 watts SSB and a Wilson 1000 magnet mount.