Greenland

[kd-5-bgt]

Several years back...before I got my ham ticket...I was on 27.600 lsb talking with a friend of mine late in the evening ...after 9 pm local time.I was on a Siltronix 1011d with an Antron 99 at 30 feet.

We had been at that frequency for some time chatting because that freq. was quiet.

After some time I heard a station break in and call me asking for our qth.I replied and informed him I was in SW Arkansas. He replied to me saying he was 2000 miles north of Thule Greenland working on a repeater for the BBC. ...Elevation was 13000 above sea level.Us 3 had a nice qso for well over 30 minutes till the conditions started changing and other big stations started covering us up....

That has to be my best contact ever not to bad for 150 watts on a splatter stick

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Sniff! Sniff! Not to be disrespectfull or anything but I small a rat. It is impossible to be more than about 925 miles north of Thule because that is where the North Pole is. Also what was the BBC doing in a land that belongs to Denmark installing a repeater. The highest point in Greenland is Mt. Gunnbjorn at 12,139 feet. Are you sure the guy REALLY was in Greenland? I have made contacts into Greenland before and actually have the QSL cards .I worked a couple of guys in Nanortalik on the south coast and Nuuk (Godthab) on the west coast as well as Upernavik halfway up the west coast. The guy I worked there owned Greenlandair Helicopters and in his QSL card he offered me a free tour "on my next trip to Greenland". :blink: Greenland is a nice contact and i really hope it was not someone out for fun. I used to run into them all the time. One guy claimed to be from Thule air base but I only copied him when the DX was running from Kentucky. :laugh:

 

[kd-5-bgt]

Now I will admit that the milage could be wrong,this was a long time ago and my brain is not what it should be for numbers (to many parties ago + time = scramble)

But the guy that I was talking with did get a qsl card from him to verify the contact ( I didnt want one at that time,I wasnt giving my addy on those freq.)

So I have no reason to doubt where he was located *shrugs*

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Good stuff. The QSL card with proper postage stamp cancellation marks pretty much confirms it as a legit contact. I was not trying to be disrespectfull BTW, just that somethings did not seem to add up.

 

[Switch Kit]

Greenland once , 1992 , apartment building , Francis Amazer on a 4ft by 4ft metal trap door to the roof of my building , 27.455 lsb on a simple tuned PC-122 . I talked to the guy for 5 minutes. I'll never forget it. I love the stories , I still remember my first radio , Cobra 85 Dynascan 23 channel with extra cystals for lower channels , it was 1985 and skip was on fire !! I talked on the lower ones below 1 , it was freak'in magical to me at the time ! Still is kind of. I got Q cards to prove it , but what the hey , IM to old to prove anything. I remember Sawnanoa Joe , North Carolina , we met on the funnys (I was still in So.Cal) we would meet on a perticular freq on a perticular day , Sometimes it would work and other times it wouldn't , but it was still magical to me, it was almost eerie at times , I'd turn the radio on at a certain time and wait , and out of no where , there would be Sawnanowa Joe , we would talk for minutes and sometimes for hours at a time , or so it seemed. You could almost tell when skip was fading in and out and sometimes it would just drop dead in a blink of an eye . Joe and I became good radio friends , sharing pictures of our families and our life styles , there were many other guys like Joe over the years gone by. Good ole CB radio ! That reminds me , the lady who turned me on to cb radio , DEE DEE 102 ! (now there was a real kick ass cb talk'in lady radio operator for you) one her best friends she met in skip land , So.Cal via Jacksonville, Mississippi ! I had the pleasure of meeting her myself while they were vacationing here in So.Cal some 17 years or so ago , Dee would go there and spend her time as well , all from that little ole Cobra 85 dydascan !! You can put down CB radio all you want , but you will never ever take away what has been freely given to me through the RF God's ! CB Radio Rocks !! I guess you just had to have been there.

 

[kd-5-bgt]

I remember my first radio as well.Royce 641 with the VFO expanded a bit to include some of the upper channels 27.445 through 27.595.The power was turned up a bit to about 20 watts if I remember right,and a Radio Shack 5/8 groundplane.

Worked all of North America with that set up for several years till I figured out that girls were good for something more than fighting with

After I settled down a bit I found that Siltronix and I was hooked on ssb radio

I had a few people that I still remember from my free band days that I had alot of fun talking to on a regular basis some were local and some were DX contacts.There several Whiskey Jack club members that I chatted with from up and down the east coast and I was a Whiskey Delta member for years.I wonder if there are still any WD or WJ members floating around the air waves or even here