Oooh, you work DX/QRP? Ever hit England? I happen to know M0TTE...
One of these years, if time and money hold out, I'm going to buckle down and get my Technician's... and if time holds out, maybe get my da back into it as well. (He holds - and still uses for his day job - a General, has since ... '60? he learnt in the Navy, worked his way up from a desk job in San Diego doing transcription to being a radar op on ELINT birds, and parlayed that into running the big 85' dishes used to track Mercury/Gemini/Apollo...)
Silly question: What sort of antenna does one use working DX? And once you find a signal to work, do you switch antennas to something directional? Or do you just swing a directional until you find something?
RR THE WORLD WONDERS ;)
p.s. sympathies for your Badgers from the Ramblin' Wreck (TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!)
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One of these years, if time and money hold out, I'm going to buckle down and get my Technician's... and if time holds out, maybe get my da back into it as well. (He holds - and still uses for his day job - a General, has since ... '60? he learnt in the Navy, worked his way up from a desk job in San Diego doing transcription to being a radar op on ELINT birds, and parlayed that into running the big 85' dishes used to track Mercury/Gemini/Apollo...)
Silly question: What sort of antenna does one use working DX? And once you find a signal to work, do you switch antennas to something directional? Or do you just swing a directional until you find something?
RR THE WORLD WONDERS ;)
p.s. sympathies for your Badgers from the Ramblin' Wreck (TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!)