Jon Iza <ea2sn@jet.es> wrote:
> + Send me email about the times you have had FUN with QRP. Yessir,
>I want all these OF tales you are keeping for your grandchildren about
>QRP, the joy of building something and enjoying it while communicating
>with others. Deadline: February 28!
My favorite QRP tale involves a ham (whose call I have forgotten) in
Florida. One day the band was open gangbusters to FL from CT. I was
running my usual 250 milliwatts and called a station in FL (all on CW).
He gave me the usual 599 (hah!) and was surprised to learn I was 1/4
watt. He dropped power from 100 watts to 50 watts and asked if I could
still hear him. :-) We went back and forth, with him being quite
surprised when he got down to a watt or so. Then he lowered power again
and told me I couldn't hear him now because the needle on his power meter
was just moving. "569, OM" was my reply. Again he tried to get me,
saying that he couldn't see the needle move at all. "529, OM - pse QRP,"
I replied. "._..." he said. He then came back, about as weak as I could
imagine. I stuggled and got most of it, and heard him turn it back to
me. I then admitted he had me; I could only copy about 80%, so I asked
him to turn it up. He came back, HI HI, quite surprised that I had just
copied 5 watts into his dummy load!
My second favorite tale involved one of those Carribean islands. A VP2E
station was on 40 CW, running them like gangbusters. I was in there with
250 milliwatts, to little avail. He had quite a rhythm going, working
one, 599, 599, QRZ? Each time he said QRZ, the pileup got going, he
picked one, then moved on to the next. Then he heard a buddy calling.
They exchanged 599s, then he told his friend that he was having a good
time, etc., then bid him a fast 73. Well, just as he was wrapping it up
with his buddy, one fellow decided to tail end (but the wrong tail), the
rest of the pileup jumped in, and next thing the whole of US was calling
him, just as he bid his farewell. Right about the time he saisd "73,
QRZ?" everyone stopped, not knowing that he was just starting to listen
for the next caller. There was a moment of dead silence, just as one
weak station send "KA1CV." He came right back to me "KA1CV ur 599K."
Well, the devil made me do it. I said "599, pwr hr 250 wm 73 K." I
could just hear all the jaws drop as everyone in the pileup wondered how
they had just been beaten out by a QRPer. I still gloat to this day. :-)
72/73 from the ARRL Lab,
Ed Hare, KA1CV
> + I will write a nice message for Andy. I will enclose all messages
>from you.
> + I will pack it and send it to Jim Cates togheter with some green
>bills for Jim to send Andy a shiny 38 Special kit and all essages.
>Then, we will wait and see. Let's hope Andy will be on the QRP ranks
>soon.
>Be well.
>jon, ea2sn
>P.S. Remember, February 28! Keep the emails coming!
>BTW. I will scrape the quote from my email when sending it to Andy ;-)
>--
>Jon Iza ea2sn since 1978 qrp'er at large! <mailto:ea2sn@jet.es>
>** One's needs are proportional to the square of his/her incompetence **
>URE - ARRL - DARC - VERON - ARI - WIA - NZART - AMSAT-UK - TAPR - IDRA
>EAqrp 26 = Gqrp 1216 = ARCI 5153 = qrp-L 313 = NorCal 701 = ARS 202
>
--73 from ARRL HQ, Ed Hare, KA1CV ARRL Laboratory Supervisor
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