Jerry Stuckle wrote:

I've had a lot of fun in as a ham in the last 48 years, but I don't
think anything will compare with the QSO's I made as a novice with a
crystal rig and dipole.

Well, for God's sake, put down $20, build a Tuna Tin Two, and get on the air
again!

I am running 5W with a homebrew compactron-based VFO and having a blast.
--scott


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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On 2/2/2016 10:24 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Jerry Stuckle wrote:

I've had a lot of fun in as a ham in the last 48 years, but I don't
think anything will compare with the QSO's I made as a novice with a
crystal rig and dipole.

Well, for God's sake, put down $20, build a Tuna Tin Two, and get on the air
again!

I am running 5W with a homebrew compactron-based VFO and having a blast.
--scott



I still enjoy CW - but nothing will ever compare to the excitement of
those first contacts as a novice, even if I had my old Hallicrafters
SX-43 and Knight-kit T-60 back again!

I made a lot of QSO's with a 40M dipole stretched across my parents back
yard. Only about 15' above ground, but it worked. I've had better
antennas which got farther and had better signal reports. But none
worked as well as that dipole!

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On 02/02/2016 09:56 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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I still enjoy CW - but nothing will ever compare to the excitement of
those first contacts as a novice, even if I had my old Hallicrafters
SX-43 and Knight-kit T-60 back again!

I made a lot of QSO's with a 40M dipole stretched across my parents back
yard. Only about 15' above ground, but it worked. I've had better
antennas which got farther and had better signal reports. But none
worked as well as that dipole!




One of my best contacts was working Ascension Island (from Wisconsin) on
40 meter CW with a wire vertical. I was running 50 watts.


Eventually I put up a beam, but was anxious to use it and worked South
Africa with it on the tripod just 3 or 4 feet off the ground