Amateur Radio: KP2Z Puerto Rico on 80M, ND State on 40M for Worked All States

This morning I checked into a Caribbean Weather and Traffic Net on 3815 Khz (3.815 Mhz) S.S.B. with KP2Z after having listened to him run through taking check ins from the Island Chain of the Caribbean … they’ve been having some rain in many of the islands of the Caribbean. KP2Z is located in Arroyo, PR 00714.

KP2Z Puerto Rico - QRZ.COM Image

Last night before going to bed … I got one of two remaining states that I needed for “Worked All States” on eQSL.cc -  the web site and system that I used for Electronic QSL and Amateur Radio Contact Logging. Thanks to N0JE for making that possible:

http://www.qrz.com/db/n0je

N0JE-ND-QRZ.COM-Image

N0JE-ND-40M-For-eWAS

N0JE USA - North Dakota - Wider Google Earth, USA view

* Now I only have one state left to make two way radio contact with on Ham Radio to have “eWAS” Worked All States mixed modes/bands on eQSL.cc. Anyway not worth too many cups of coffee from anyone … but very good for my geography knowledge and good practice of “non infrastructure” free air radio communications for potential emergency use and a heck of a good way to meet new people and share camraderie across the USA and the World.

* Last night I also had a few long QSO “rag chew” conversations with two stations on 40 Meters S.S.B. very good signals and propagation on 40 M for these “sessions” where I had KB1LSK in BAILEYVILLE, ME 04694 and (even longer with) AA9GC Herb in JACKSON, MO 63755 - Herb was the longest one of them later last night, but I also chatted with WW1I, Bryan in Grantham, NH; K1EKF in Evans, GA; K2GAV in Barkhamsted, CT and I even managed to pull in a repeat contact with IK2DDK in BELLAGIO COMO Italy.

IK2DDK - QRZ.com Image

* “So what …?” some persons will probably say … until they realize that these were NOT cell phone calls, they were not Text Messaging on cellular, and  they were not Internet-based voice or web chats. There were “no wires”, “no Internet”, no “telephone” in these FRIEND sessions - our signals, our voices, traveled from our own private antennas up through the ionosphere between our stations with no public or commercial infrastructure inbetween. How cool is that????

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73 de KA4UDX,

Alan Spicer

a.k.a. Alan Spicer Marine Telecom

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