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                                                                                                      LAST UPDATE   100705
Dear OMs,                                                                                             LAST UPDATE: 10-07-05
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I love to QSO!                                                                                                      E  O  A
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On-Air is much more enjoyable than e-mails!                                                                            R  T
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Send me an email & make a sked!

I have abanded 3532KHz as an operating frequency, although I still go down there for isolated skeds.  Most notably, 8AM  on 
Fridays with W6ICM and on Saturday/Sunday mornings for N6KIX/KB6FPW For the balance of the summer at least, 80 meters seems 
to have only a limited range and I don't plan to be spending much time there.  I have been monitoring 7034KHz, the new PARG 
QRG whenever I am home and  have spare time.  Often if the  bands are good I'm on the  low end of 40 or 20  working "garden 
variety" DX.  In the evenings I am NCS on Wednesday and sometimes other days of the week on 3533KHz at 7PM for NCN.

My dialysis has been  changed from peritoneal to  hemo dialysis and my  new schedule is from  10:30AM until 3PM on  Tuesday 
Thursday and Saturday.  I've been getting on NCN, not every night, but once in awhile.  During evening hours after the skip 
opens on 40 Meters, I'm planning to monitor 3535 or 3533, probably not much after 8PM LMT.

Until band conditions improve and until I get the 3/8 40 Meter antenna up, I plan to keep the amplifier on the dipole,  and 
will, most of the time be running 500W on all but local QSO's.  If you should hear me on 80 or 40, call me and if it  isn't 
on, I will turn it on promptly.  I've had rather good results working the Far East and the Eastern Seaboard with  generally 
good signals using the amp.  Unless you are in Europe or someplace like that, if I can hear you we can have a good QSO.

My K2 is lacking sensitivity (by my narrow personal definition) on the higher bands.  Starting at 20 meters, I must run the 
AF gain at 12 O'clock rather than 9 O'clock as on the lower bands.  On 15 meters the situation is worse, etc.  Generally  I 
spend most of my time on 40 & 80, with some garden  variety DXing on 20.  This ended when I acquired the AMECO PT-3.   I've 
been keeping watch on the higher bands and it really works wonderfully.

There is only have  one active  antenna, a  HyGain 5BDQ  dipole at  45ft.  A  K2/100/AL811H and  an Ameritron  QSK-5 switch 
comprise the HF station, usually at 500W on 40 and 100W on 80CW, 500W 80fone.  For widest possible SSB bandwidth  (2.6KHz), 
the  S/N 0838 was sent  in to Elecraft and updated  with all the mods to  make it the equivalent of  the S/N 6XXX now being 
shipped.  A new Heil Gold Mike GM-5 was purchased for best modulation envelope.  

If you should hear me on the air, during random QSO's, please BREAK-IN right away.  My biggest problem is available time  & 
if you wait for the QSO to end I may miss my chance to talk with you.

Lastly, you might send  me a QSL via  eQSL.cc or LoTW if  I'm in your log.   I now have paper  QSL's, please don't send  me 
yours, as I put them in the waste can when I receive them.  Let me know when we QSO and I will send you mine.

Let me tell you about my new printer, a Kodak 6150.  I am THRILLED with it.  Printing QSL cards is just part of the  story, 
it has ink that costs about 1/3 of other printers, and the ink cartridges are sooo much bigger than the others, they hold a 
lot of ink.  Not only do you pay 1/3 the cost, you get much more ink.  The true cost is much lower than that !  The printer 
makes double sided copies, eliminating the need to pull out  the printed sheet and re-enter reversed for the other side,  a 
great convenience.  It prints #10 envelopes. does faxes etc etc.  Anyway, I recommend it to you highly.

Very 73,

TR, K6GC CFO #1000

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