Is everyone else seeing Dave's Death Valley photos? -- Murf
--- In QRPops@yahoogroups. com, "David Crocker" wrote:
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> Dave Flack, Neil, Alex (VE7EIS) and I spent a total of 10 days in Death
> Valley at Texas Creek near Furnace Creek. Dave sent up in his camper on
> PSK31 and made a couple of contacts using his ICOM 7000 with a long wire.
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> I operated on an adjacent hill with my Jackite ground plane vertical and IC
> 703 on 20M SSB. I operated in the morning heard some European stations but
> they didn't move the S-meter. The noise level is unbelievable down there.
> They couldn't hear me but I did make a number of state side contacts. I had
> better luck in the afternoon, heard lots Japanese stations but there was a
> lot of QRM from high power stateside stations. I listened a little more and
> heard a station on South Cook Island. He gave me a 5-5 report and got a
> laugh out of a 10W station in Death Valley coming back to his CQ after that
> I talked to a station in Hiroshima and Guadalajara.
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> My goal was to make some contacts from the lowest place in the Western
> Hemisphere, Badwater (-282 ft.). Neil and I managed to setup on the salt
> down there, unfortunately there was a contest going so all they wanted was
> your state and your name. The location as you can imagine is deep in a
> valley with high mountains to the East and West so I didn't know what the
> propagation might be like. Alaska gave me a report of +10 and I did manage
> to talk to a guy in New Hampshire who was actually in a hotel room in
> Yokohama operating the home rig via the internet. Neil and I had a lot of
> fun with some German tourists who though we were some kind of scientific
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> The mountain in the back ground is Telescope Peak (11,049 ft.)
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> 73, Dave W6VYC
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