My First SSB Phone Contact!

What do you say, what do you know fellow blog readers??!

It's a great day for me today! I finally made my first SSB contact on 40M tonight!

I had the pleasure of a short QSO with KD2RD out in Long Island, NY on 7.181.850. I heard him at about 40 over 5/9 and I was received at about a 5/8. I was working off my Buddipole and KX3 in the back yard at about 100W and John was working off of roughly 1700 (!!) Watts.

The bands were on the crummy side this evening, but I figured it would be worth a shot trying to talk to somebody. After roughly an hour it paid off!

Not really much else to say this evening, but I wanted to get this short blog out there as soon as I could! 

73 de N9HAX

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