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AUSTRALIAN HAM RADIO STORE
You have to be in it to win it. Yes, there is not much fun watching the ‘blue screen of death’, but this is precisely what chasing rare ones on 6m is all about. Character building patience!
The faint trace on the spectrum turned out to be a CQ call from Valery, RA9J from Nizhnevartovsk, Tyumenskaya oblast.
Frantically, I sent my call, he replied, reports exchanged – and that was it. Less than a minute, gone for ever.
There was no Japanese wall, no other signals whatsoever, no interference. Just a brief, fine opening over a distance of 12,855 kilometres.
The magic of the magic band.
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