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Congratulations Rick.
I can still remember my first contact.
Try making a rat tail, or tiger tail as some call it for your FT60.
It only takes a couple of minutes and may expand your reach.
Karl
W1ZHU
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On Wed, 6/18/14, 'Rick - yahoo' rgsparber.ya@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:

Subject: [FT-60] my first contact!
To: FT-60@...
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 3:22 PM


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Thanks to all for your advise. I
just make my first contact using a repeater on South
Mountain. This repeater is 2.5 miles from my home with a
clear line of sight. When I was sitting down outside, the
signal was poor. Just by standing up, it was good. My
contact was in a town south of me about 30 miles away. I did
remember to say my call sign every 10 minutes (or sooner)
and at the end. Great fun and I learned a few
things! ?73RickKG7MQL









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