GB> happy dance

[Ray Friess]

YEP!!!   nothing like that feeling.....      And, the buy it off the 
shelf and plug it in and turn it on
crowd dont have the faintest clue what they are missing...
THIS is ham radio at its finest.      
I had the same type of thrill the first time I made a contact through a 
ham satellite....  but even
then it came in second to a qso like yours....



Brian Carling wrote:

>CONGRATULATIONS!
>
>I was in Englewood the other day working!
>
>Let's have a sked soon and work DX60 to DX60, OK?
>Mine should be here any day now.
>
>On 8 Mar 2005 at 20:07, KU4YP wrote:
>
>  
>
>>i just gotta share this with people who will care,
>>
>> just finished qso with bil, kg4rrt in englewood, florida. no great
>> feat 
>>in itself, only that i made the qso running my dx-60b/hg10 and drake
>>2b !!!! man, i had to peel myself off the ceiling. that was the most
>>fun i have had with a cw qso in a long time. and i gotta hand it to
>>the om who grew up with ham radio through the years. when you sent a
>>qsl, it is because you WORKED for it. LOL. i am a young buck and did
>>not get to experience this first hand when the rigs were new. so,
>>spotting the receiver and switching between transmitter and receiver
>>is still being perfected. plus, this is one of the only pieces of
>>radio equipment i have "fixed" that actually WORKED.
>>
>> i am running the transmitter into my 80 meter loop. the drake is
>>attached to a 65 foot piece of wire ran about 8 foot off the ground.
>>
>> man, what a ride.
>>
>> 73 mike ku4yp
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    
>>
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