[Dx-qsl] Rec'd: R1ANF

Fri Jul 7 14:01:26 EDT 2006

At 01:43 PM 07/07/2006, Jerry Keller wrote:
>Bit of trivia for you, Peter... if the QSO was in April '06, you 
>worked R1ANF (probably Oleg, the Bellingshausen station commander) 
>on either the SteppIR 3L yagi or the SteppIR BiggIR vertical... if 
>you recall, what was his signal like?

I worked that Q at 0224 UTC on April 17th (sent the card in the mail 
later that day). Don't recall signal strength, but 40 is by far my 
worst HF band...so if he was audible enough to me to enable a Q, he 
was doing OK <grin>. Log says 599 each-way but then again I'm not 
generally a stickler for accurate signal reports when DXing in big pileups :-).
I saw pics of their three element SteppIR in a 75mph wind and ice 
storm. They were on display at Fluid Motion's booth in Dayton this 
year...pretty spectacular, to be honest. Actually, now that they have 
an 80m kit for their BigIR vertical, I think I'm going to put one up 
this fall. Hopefully this will solve 40m for me, and give me a backup 
to my C31XR and 2/2/1 Force 12 yagi combination.
Cheers,
Peter,
W2IRT 