Thursday, 18 March 2010

Another amazing contact

What a day, I came home for lunch and flicked the radio on while I was making a sandwich. I listened on the 10 meter band and although it was quiet I could hear some activity low down. I turned the 2 element quad around until I got the loudest signal, I could hear someone but the QSB was quite bad and the signal was fluctuating between a 3/0 up to a 5/2 and even 5/5 for a couple of seconds.
I couldn't quite catch the call sign but I could hear others calling in. I carried on making my sandwich and with the signals building all the time I kept listening.I still couldn't catch the call sign but though I would call anyway. M6JDB I shouted, no return. 3 or 4 times then I got a call back. The signal had picked up and the other operator was about 5/3 - 5/5 We made contact and exchanged signal reports. I asked for the call sign and Peter replied ZD7FT repeat ZD7FT. The is St Helena Island in the South Atlantic. 5,000 miles from my QTH.
After 3 laps of the kitchen I came and wrote this, back off to work now, skipping all the way !

James Broadhouse ( M6JDB )

1 comments:

  1. Love stories like this! Nice website too.

    Congrats mate!

    I blog about my ham escapades too:
    http://ve3cnu.blogspot.com/

    Hope you come visit!

    73 de ve3cnu

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