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Matt285:
Yup. Could have bought a few Icom's or Yaesu's. Oh well didnt know any better, but in the end I had a blast and learned on my way

Matt285:
I got my PFR-3 all set up and realized my children have destroyed all the working headphones in the house. Off to the store.

Matt285:
Did have as much time as I had wanted, but I did get a chance to work some stations on my QRP rig. One of which was in Lithuania. Most others were state side. Also yesterday evening I heard several stations from the middle Eastern area working U.S stations on 20 meters including Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. 20 meters has had some later band openings lately.

Josh:
When I ran jt mode, used to fire up on a "dead" band all by myself and sometimes got a response from far away. Never worked Russia before voice or digital, or pretty much anyone east of Poland on hf before, but one night tuning a silent 20m jt decided to send a cq and my first and so far only Russian came back, just like that. If the band seems dead, slap it with some rf to make sure.

Matt285:
This is true. I think this happens fairly often on 6 meters. A bunch of people listening and waiting for someone to throw out a call. Come to think of it 2m/440 is like that quite a bit too.

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