A couple of evenings ago, I had a couple of interesting contacts with stations running QRP. That wasn’t the most interesting thing about the contacts, though.
The contact with Kyle, KN6KJK, was remarkable for a couple of reasons:
- He was a Tech operating CW on 40m.
- He used my study guide to prepare for his Tech exam (and he thanked me for that.)
- KJK are actually his initials, and he was randomly assigned that callsign from the call sign pool.
My next contact was with Jerry, KI4PS. He was operating an FT-818 at 5 W. The reason that this contact was interesting is that Jerry cut the contact short, complaining about QRM. There was indeed a signal operating very close to our frequency (see screenshot at left). I’m going to guess that that signal was about 250 Hz down from our frequency of 7028 kHz.
I didn’t hear that signal at all. I had my Flex 6400 filter set to 250 Hz, meaning that the QRM was outside of the passband. That’s a real tribute to the Flex filtering algorithms.
Finally, I worked a guy a couple of days after Christmas who has the following on his QRZ.Com page:
Don’t get the chinese virus vaccine it may contain ID2020 chip as immunity passport. It is part of the mark of the beast!
Seriously??
I had hoped that ham radio operators had more sense, but I guess not. My take on it is that even if there was an ID2020 chip, it wouldn’t be available due to the chip shortage.
Goody K3NG says
It’s not politically correct to say this, but whoever believes the vaccine has a microchip in it should be denied medical care if they get sick. They’re idiots, and they’re getting others sick and killed with their stupidity.
Josh M says
Waitaminute… is that where all the chips went?! BRB, calling the local bloodbank to see if they have any of the STM32 I need in stock, since nobody else seems to.
Norm says
I think the operator worried about an ID2020 chip doesn’t want it to overwhelm is already installed ID10T chip…
Kyle Krafka says
Thanks for the write-up, Dan! I enjoyed our QSO and good to hear you again last night on SST! 73!
Dan KB6NU says
Please call me any time, Kyle. :)