{"id":2164,"date":"2019-12-03T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/et-2-contact-18-w4foa-random-unscheduled-and-not-spotted-video\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:50:43","slug":"et-2-contact-18-w4foa-random-unscheduled-and-not-spotted-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/et-2-contact-18-w4foa-random-unscheduled-and-not-spotted-video\/","title":{"rendered":"ET-2 Contact #18  W4FOA &#8212;  RANDOM, UNSCHEDULED, AND NOT SPOTTED (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7zzQuXaSKa8\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>On December 1, 2019, my 100 milliwatt signal flew more than 500 miles to reach Tony W4FOA in Chickamauga, Georgia. And &#8212; icing on the cake &#8212; this was a random contact. Tony just heard my CQ on 7038 kHz &#8212; he had not been alerted to my CQ by any spotting site or by the SKCC Sked page. <\/b><b>I made a quick video of my side of the contact (above). <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>In a follow-up e-mail Tony explained how my CQ sounded to him: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b>  <\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> <i><b><span style=\"background-color: white;\">&#8220;I was just listening on the 40 meter band and having been a QRP&#8217;er for 50+ years, I tend to notice the weaker stations, thus explains my calling you. <\/span><span style=\"background-color: yellow;\">Also, your signal had that little &#8220;sound&#8221; of &#8220;yesteryear&#8221; when signals were not all pure, hi. <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;\"> Had it not been for the QSB and QRN we could have had a long chat despite the weak signal from your QRPp. <\/span><\/b><\/i><i><b><span style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;\">Over the years I have QRP DXCC, 2 way QRPARCI WAS, and my best DX was two QSO&#8217;s with 2 different VK7 stations on 40 when I was running 1 watt. I&#8217;ve had a lot of different QRP rigs and still have some home brew stuff plus a couple of HW8s, HW9, Elecraft K2, etc&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> <\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<p> <i><b><br \/><\/b><\/i> <b>From Tony&#8217;s QRZ.com page, we learn more about his ham radio activities (note his homebrew rigs and his obvious affection for the Drake 2B and 2BQ) <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"lucida grande\" , \"lucida sans\" , \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\">First licensed as WN4FOA in April 1954. Other calls held include <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: red; font-family: \"lucida grande\" , \"lucida sans\" , \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\">EL2AD, 7Q7AA, PY1ZBA<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"lucida grande\" , \"lucida sans\" , \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\">. Prefer to work CW but I do work some SSB, primarily DX-related. Enjoy chasing DX on all HF bands. Have 9BDXCC and I now have worked and confirmed all of the current DXCC countries . I enjoy QRP operation and currently use an Elecraft K2 (#2213),Ameco AC-1, Kenwood TS-130V SW-40, DC-40, HW-8 (2), Heathkit HW-9 Deluxe (WARC) PSA-9 HFT-9B SP-99 HM-9 HD-420 VLF, MFJ 40T and MFJ 40V VFO, <\/span><span style=\"background-color: yellow; font-family: \"lucida grande\" , \"lucida sans\" , \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\">and a homebrew 6AG7\/6L6 or a 6C4\/5763 <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"lucida grande\" , \"lucida sans\" , \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> etc. I also enjoy operating boatanchor gear which includes a Johnson Viking Adventurer, Viking Challenger, an Eico 720 and an Eico 723 with a HG-10B VFO and a Heath AT-1 and a Drake 2NT. Recently added a neat Lysco 600 transmitter and a Knight Kit T-60, Johnson Viking II, and a Ten Tec 544. Boatanchor receivers include a Hallicrafters SX-100, SX-110, SX-71, Drake R4C <\/span><span style=\"background-color: yellow; font-family: \"lucida grande\" , \"lucida sans\" , \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\">and the incredible Drake 2B\/2BQ combo.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"lucida grande\" , \"lucida sans\" , \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"> Recently added a Kenwood TS-830S, VFO-240, AT-230 and SP-230.<\/span><\/i><\/b><br \/> <b><i><span style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"lucida grande\" , \"lucida sans\" , \"arial\" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/i><\/b>  <\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w4foa.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"266\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/w4foa.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Tony W4FOA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> <b>Thanks a lot Tony. 73<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 1, 2019, my 100 milliwatt signal flew more than 500 miles to reach Tony W4FOA in Chickamauga, Georgia. And &#8212; icing on the cake &#8212; this was a random contact. Tony just heard my CQ on 7038 kHz &#8212; he had not been alerted to my CQ by any spotting site or by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/et-2-contact-18-w4foa-random-unscheduled-and-not-spotted-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ET-2 Contact #18  W4FOA &#8212;  RANDOM, UNSCHEDULED, AND NOT SPOTTED (Video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,6,294,85,87,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cw","category-drake-2b","category-et-2","category-minimalist-radio","category-qrp","category-tubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}