It was a very busy ham radio weekend:
- Operated from the museum Saturday morning from 1400Z – 1800Z. The best DX was KL7WP/7 from Portland. I got a little excited when we first made contact because I was hoping to get the Alaska contact.
We had two very cool visitors. The first was a little girl and her mother. We got the girl to send her name in Morse Code, and the kid really enjoyed that. The two seemed genuinely interested, especially when we told them that we were going to put up a station at the museum.
The second was a middle school teacher from Oakland County. He was interested in the no-solder, code practice oscillator as something he could get his students to build.
- As if that wasn’t enough ham radio for me on Saturday, I got on the air that evening while waiting for Silvia to get home from work. I worked VK4TT on 20m CW and IK1RLI on 30m CW. There was quite a bit of activity on 20m, and I probably should have stayed there.
- To top off the evening, I worked K1FIR, another card to add to my collection of QSLs from stations whose callsigns spell words.
- Sunday morning, after a short QSO with KA1VRM, I went to help a friend with some tower maintenance.
- Sunday evening, the propagation gods once again smiled on me. I just worked 7X4AN, Med, in Algeria (a new one for me) on 20m and IW0GXY, Max, on 30m.
All in all, quite a good weekend for ham radio here at KB6NU.
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