Alan Spicer works St. Maarten on HF/SSB 14.240 Mhz

This was an interesting one, not only because it’s a nice DX (Long Distance) contact on Amateur (Ham) Radio, but also because it’s a popular Yacht Destination.

Anyway I worked a station: PJ7UT on USB (Upper Sideband) HF/SSB today. It’s a Ham Radio “Net” on there for the http://www.iparc.org/ International Police Association Radio Club. Anyway, QRZ.com gives the following information about the call sign.

PJ7UT looks like a callsign from St Maarten, Saba, St Eustatius (DXCC Entity #255).

Anyway this is somewhere on the order of 1200 miles away on a bearing of around 300 degrees from my QTH. I read somewhere online where a ham said something like: What’s neat about Amateur/Ham Radio is that it is communications that does not depend on any of the normal (expected) infrastructure of the times, namely it does not rely on Satellite, Cellular, WiFi, or any other such “controlled by others” systems in order to communicate.

The rig here is Kenwood TS-480SAT - power output was 60 watts - antenna is Hustler Trapped Vertical model # 6BTV, ground mounted.

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73 de KA4UDX

Alan Spicer Telecom / Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

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+1 954-683-3426

communications (at) marinetelecom.net

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