Yesterday, I got on 30m, tuned around, and heard Fritz, W4PKU calling CQ. He had a decent 559 signal here, so I thought we could make a go of it. He gave me a 579 report, but immediately after the first exchange, the band went dead and we gave up. I tuned around a bit more, but didn’t hear much, so I QSYed to 40m.
I tuned around a bit there, then got distracted with something in the schack and played around with that for about ten minutes, then turned my attention back to the radio. I tuned around again, looking for CQs, but when I heard none, decided to give out a blast on 7030.
It only took one CQ, and who comes back to me but W4PKU. This time, he was booming in with a 599+ signal. We had a real nice QSO this time, and at a relatively high speed. Fritz has a nice fist that’s easy to copy up close to 30 wpm.
I titled this item “Double Double” because something similar happened to me last month. On October 15, George, W2BPI was my last QSO of the day. Then, on October 16, George was my first QSO of the day, so his call appears twice in a row, just as Fritz’ call does.
I just found this to be funny that it happened at all, much less twice in a month.
Update 12/2/06:
Yesterday, my first QSO of the day was with Chuck, NO5W, who was my last contact Friday evening. That makes the third time in just a little more than a month.
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