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RE: LF: First VE7 to VY1 QSO on 137.6

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Subject: RE: LF: First VE7 to VY1 QSO on 137.6
From: "Laurence KL1X" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 03:27:24 -0800
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Good stuff! Looking back at the overnight trace I only see some weak traces on 137.5730 but no Id's =

very noisy overnight here in OK. Cheers Laurence em26br ok


> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:00:37 +0000
> Subject: LF: First VE7 to VY1 QSO on 137.6
>
> Hello, All,
>
> This morning, 2006/05/25, at 08:13 UTC Steve, VE7SL, made a two-way QSO on 
> 137.5735 kHz with VY1JA using QRSS60.  His signals were so strong that in 
> the end, I asked him to switch to conventional CW and he was 100% copy at 
> about 12 WPM.  I hope to be able to send Steve the .WAV file and captures of 
> the QSO from my end for his website.
>
> I believe this is the first ever LF QSO from Yukon.
>
> The transmitter at the Yukon end was Steve's old tuning transmitter running 
> at its low power setting, approximately 25-30 Watts, which should be about 
> 0.1W ierp.
>
> Steve should get a gold star for his skill at pulling out the weak signals.
>
> When parts arrive in the next week or so, I will be switching the station to 
> VFO control and be moving the transmitter frequency to the watering hole on 
> about 137.77845
>
> Many thanks to Steve for his patience for the 2-1/2 hours it took to get 
> this QSO through.
>
> 73,
>
> "J"
> VY1JA 
>
>
>



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