George, KA3JWJ in PA impressed again this year on 40m when his original Ameco AC-1 at 8W pushed the S-meter on my FT-1000 to S7.5! How do you do it George? Don't be fooled by that innocent-looking box sitting atop his S-38 inhaler, also used during our QSO. Howie's fine homebrew parallel 807s were smoking-in up here, delightfully chirpy, in broad daylight. Number 1 on the runway again this year was NRR regular, WB2AWQ down in Reno. Jorge was heard working stations from coast to coast but may have also been living too close to the NRR edge as the bias supply in his Hallicrafters HT-37 took him off the air until he set up his Kenwood TS-520 for the duration.Īnother duo-band contact (40 & 15m) was with Dan, K2YWE in MD whose Globe Scout was also 599, three S-units louder than on 40m.Īlthough 15m provided a lot of excitement, most of my contacts were on 40m. What would 15m be without a little DX? I was delighted to hear Jorge, KP4GC in PR, reply to my CQ to the south east. Putting yet another DX-60 into the log with the notation of " 599 +"! Worked on both 40 and 15m was Paul, WB5EVO in OK. I was lucky enough to snag Rich, WB2WGX in NY on 15m for his only contact on that band! I'm not sure why he didn't find more action as his Ranger II was 599 here on the west coast. Such are the perils of living life on the edge, in the NRR! My first contact on 15m was with Mike, WA5POK in TN, who came blasting through at 599 with his DX-40 only to have the power transformer in his National NC-270 go up in smoke a few days later. If the bold predictions for the new cycle come to fruition, we may be enjoying 10m next time out as well! Don’t pass up either of these fine NRR rigs should you be fortunate enough to run across one.Īll told, I completed 26 NRR contacts on 15m which surely is good news for future NRRs going into Cycle 25. I think this year I heard more DX-60s than ever before! A couple of years ago it was the Knight T-60 that seemed to be everywhere. His little DX-60 did a good job in making the coast-to-coast leap at 559. It was particularly exciting to hook-up with VA1RST way back in Nova Scotia, on 15m. The band benefited from an increase in the solar flux at the beginning of the week which kept the MUF a little higher than 21MHz for most of the Roundup. Some of this year’s excitement included the much better conditions on 15m over the previous solar-low years. This year''s NRR was dedicated to AF4K - RIP Bry. I missed hearing him and always looked forward to the challenge of making it down to Florida from here.
Missing for the first time was NRR co-founder, Bry Carling, AF4K, who sadly became a silent key last year. It was fascinating to hear many of these old clunkers sounding just great, with no two sounding exactly the same.
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