(Araucaria) Fw: [Elecraft] [K3] ZL8X on 160 from Arkansas

[Adriano]

Que inveja !!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick-WA5BDU" <nick-wa5bdu em suddenlink.net>
To: <Elecraft em mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 3:29 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] [K3] ZL8X on 160 from Arkansas


> I've been turning on 160 the first thing in the morning for a couple
> weeks, ever since putting elevated radials under my inverted L, and
> hearing nothing but noise and a couple U.S. super stations calling CQ
> DX.  Did I mention there was a wasp on the window outside my room 
> yesterday?
>
> So this morning the cluster reported that he was on 1.826.5 and
> eventually I was able to barely hear him.  Using every trick in the K3's
> tool box including APF, I could finally make him out sending his call,
> but he was ESP level.  I put in my call a few times without much hope of
> working him.  After one last time, I decided to go cook some oatmeal and
> maybe check again in 30 minutes, so I pushed the TX standby switch on
> the rig as I always do when I walk away from it. I don't want the cats
> working DX with my call.
>
> Just as I was pulling the phones off, I heard: DU?  So I mashed the TX
> standby switch for the eternity of one-half second it takes to go back
> to active.  While doing this, I felt a tiny breeze on the back of my
> hand -- that red wasp was attempting a landing.  I heard the beep and
> moved my hand to the paddle, the wasp landed on the K3's display, and I
> sent 'WA5BDU' a couple times.  He came back 'WA5BDU 5NN' and naturally
> he was 5NN too.  New 160M country in the log and another thing to be
> thankful for.
>
> 73-
>
> Nick, WA5BDU
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