The Old 15 Meter - or 21 Mc - Band
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The Old 15 Meter - or 21 Mc - Band
 
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Me too! For me it was 1957 - the peak of the best sunspot cycle ever.
Every morning before going to school I was in my cellar ham "shack" working my way through the rest of the world on 21.1+ with a DX-20, a dipole, an HQ-100, and a QTH right at the ocean's edge. DXing like shooting fish in a barrel. Great fun. The Novice license in those days was valid for one year and NON-renewable. It was one year, then up or out. (I was KN1CBR then, became K1CBR later, then went back to KN1CBR when vanity calls became available, purely as a matter of nostalgia.) These days I am recapturing some of it - but not the technical primitivity - with my KX3 and indoor dipole (at 21.02 Mhz) in an urban condo in Denver. Still great fun! Ted, KN1CBR > >------------------------------ > >Message: 25 >Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 22:43:05 -0400 >From: Barry LaZar <[hidden email]> >To: [hidden email], Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]> >Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Activity in ancient 15-meter novice band > (21.1 MHz) >Message-ID: <[hidden email]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Wayne, > I remember that band. It was my favorite even though I wasn't a >novice. I met some of the friendliest hams in the world there, to >include some great DX. > >73, >Barry >K3NDM > > >On 5/25/2014 4:03 PM, Wayne Burdick [hidden email] [KX3] wrote: >> >> Thanks to the PX3 panadapter and the CQ WW CW contest, I just made my >> first QSO in at least three decades in the legacy 21.1 MHz U.S. >> Novice-license segment. I didn't expect activity to spread upward that >> far, but sure enough, blips appeared on the PX3 above 21.1, and I was >> able to make a quick QSO with WK1Q using 12 W (KX3 barefoot). >> >> This brought back a lot of memories. 21.1-21.15 was my favorite place >> to hang out back in the 1970s, when I was crystal-controlled on >> transmit, using a Heath HW-16. In those days I had a home-rolled >> 2-element 15-meter yogi made from 1/2-inch steel pipe and 2x4s. Must >> have weighed 40 pounds. Fortunately, my patient stepfather knew that >> getting that antenna up would keep me out of trouble (I was 15 at the >> time). >> >> Wayne >> N6KR >> >> __._,_.___ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
Re: The Old 15 Meter - or 21 Mc - Band
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I can relate to all of this. And I cannot recall a
worse sunspot cycle than the one we have now. Phil W7OX On 5/26/14, 7:31 AM, Dauer, Edward wrote: > Me too! For me it was 1957 - the peak of the best sunspot cycle ever. > Every morning before going to school I was in my cellar ham "shack" > working my way through the rest of the world on 21.1+ with a DX-20, a > dipole, an HQ-100, and a QTH right at the ocean's edge. DXing like > shooting fish in a barrel. Great fun. The Novice license in those days > was valid for one year and NON-renewable. It was one year, then up or > out. (I was KN1CBR then, became K1CBR later, then went back to KN1CBR > when vanity calls became available, purely as a matter of nostalgia.) > These days I am recapturing some of it - but not the technical primitivity > - with my KX3 and indoor dipole (at 21.02 Mhz) in an urban condo in > Denver. Still great fun! > > Ted, KN1CBR >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 25 >> Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 22:43:05 -0400 >> From: Barry LaZar <[hidden email]> >> To: [hidden email], Elecraft Reflector <[hidden email]> >> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Activity in ancient 15-meter novice band >> (21.1 MHz) >> Message-ID: <[hidden email]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Wayne, >> I remember that band. It was my favorite even though I wasn't a >> novice. I met some of the friendliest hams in the world there, to >> include some great DX. >> >> 73, >> Barry >> K3NDM >> >> >> On 5/25/2014 4:03 PM, Wayne Burdick [hidden email] [KX3] wrote: >>> Thanks to the PX3 panadapter and the CQ WW CW contest, I just made my >>> first QSO in at least three decades in the legacy 21.1 MHz U.S. >>> Novice-license segment. I didn't expect activity to spread upward that >>> far, but sure enough, blips appeared on the PX3 above 21.1, and I was >>> able to make a quick QSO with WK1Q using 12 W (KX3 barefoot). >>> >>> This brought back a lot of memories. 21.1-21.15 was my favorite place >>> to hang out back in the 1970s, when I was crystal-controlled on >>> transmit, using a Heath HW-16. In those days I had a home-rolled >>> 2-element 15-meter yogi made from 1/2-inch steel pipe and 2x4s. Must >>> have weighed 40 pounds. Fortunately, my patient stepfather knew that >>> getting that antenna up would keep me out of trouble (I was 15 at the >>> time). >>> >>> Wayne >>> N6KR ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I wonder if the probability of being an future avid DXer depended upon
whether one was first licensed near a sunspot peak or sunspot minimum? For me the working of a WH6 on 40M just before school was the clincher. Ruined a bunch of FT-243 xtals trying to grind them down for near the Novice 15 and 40 M band lower edges. Worst DX: "Working" the FCC when supposedly on 80M but bandswitch on 40M. So being crystal controlled didn't mean you couldn't operate outside the Novice bands... 73 de Brian/K3KO On 5/26/2014 14:31, Dauer, Edward wrote: > Me too! For me it was 1957 - the peak of the best sunspot cycle ever. > Every morning before going to school I was in my cellar ham "shack" > working my way through the rest of the world on 21.1+ with a DX-20, a > dipole, an HQ-100, and a QTH right at the ocean's edge. DXing like > shooting fish in a barrel. Great fun. The Novice license in those days > was valid for one year and NON-renewable. It was one year, then up or > out. (I was KN1CBR then, became K1CBR later, then went back to KN1CBR > when vanity calls became available, purely as a matter of nostalgia.) > These days I am recapturing some of it - but not the technical primitivity > - with my KX3 and indoor dipole (at 21.02 Mhz) in an urban condo in > Denver. Still great fun! > > Ted, KN1CBR >> ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2247 / Virus Database: 3722/7061 - Release Date: 05/26/14 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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