Worked Eduardo, CO8LY, this morning before work on 20 meters. I have worked him before, on 15, but inexplicably did not try for a QSL card. I think perhaps he did not have a manager back then (2005). Now he is managed by the excellent EA7ADH.
At lunch, I hung up the 10 meter stick and quickly found WA5KWS, Bruce, in McComb, Mississippi. We had a nice QSO with good reports both ways. He even said my audio sounded good, something that is an issue with the 7K radios.
And incidentally, this is my lifetime first QSO on 10 meters. Before becoming active on HF again in 2003, I had stayed exclusively on 2, 75, and (rarely) 40. Now I have two 6 meter contacts and one 10 meter contact in the three days since I got the radio going in the truck.
It's working very well, gets a little warm but nothing alarming. Today was the first time it warmed up enough for the fan to come on. I have ordered a coax jumper made from RG8X to go to the tuner to get a little more robust connection there. I worry the Radio Shack RG58 jumpers aren't up to the task.
I am anxious to get the remoting kit, which was back ordered. The power cable is just long enough to permit mounting the main unit on the floor behind the passenger seat, and I can find a spot near or on the dash for the control head.
Then I will really be uptown.
Posted in Operating by WA5ICA at June 19, 2007 12:32 PM