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Beetle I'll bet that was exciting to get into that area with such a simple antenna. One just never knows!

Something simular like that happened a few years back (2002) with me.
It was 8:00 pm in Jan. (of course it had been dark outside for 3 hrs) and I had the beam pointing over the pole. I was monitoring a call freq on 11 meters and all of sudden here comes stations from the Indian Ocean and in about a 15 min. time frame, I talked to Seychelles, Reunion Is. Then the next night I was surprised again when I had a nice contact with a station in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Rodriquez Is.

So every night after that, for the rest of the month, I was parked on the freq at 7:30pm and I did manage to work several stations in Russia. Here is the card from the guy that I worked late one night, it was my first contact into European Russia and his first into N. America.

<blockquote data-quote="DXman" data-source="post: 301587" data-attributes="member: 23">Beetle I&#039;ll bet that was exciting to get into that area with such a simple antenna. One just never knows!Something simular like that happened a few years back (2002) with me.It was 8:00 pm in Jan. (of course it had been dark outside for 3 hrs) and I had the beam pointing over the pole. I was monitoring a call freq on 11 meters and all of sudden here comes stations from the Indian Ocean and in about a 15 min. time frame, I talked to Seychelles, Reunion Is. Then the next night I was surprised again when I had a nice contact with a station in Almaty, Kazakhstan and Rodriquez Is.So every night after that, for the rest of the month, I was parked on the freq at 7:30pm and I did manage to work several stations in Russia. Here is the card from the guy that I worked late one night, it was my first contact into European Russia and his first into N. America.<img src="http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8190/russia50.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DXman, post: 301587, member: 23"] Beetle I'll bet that was exciting to get into that area with such a simple antenna. One just never knows! Something simular like that happened a few years back (2002) with me. It was 8:00 pm in Jan. (of course it had been dark outside for 3 hrs) and I had the beam pointing over the pole. I was monitoring a call freq on 11 meters and all of sudden here comes stations from the Indian Ocean and in about a 15 min. time frame, I talked to [B]Seychelles[/B], [B]Reunion Is[/B]. Then the next night I was surprised again when I had a nice contact with a station in [B]Almaty, Kazakhstan[/B] and [B]Rodriquez Is[/B]. So every night after that, for the rest of the month, I was parked on the freq at 7:30pm and I did manage to work several stations in Russia. Here is the card from the guy that I worked late one night, it was my first contact into European Russia and his first into N. America. [IMG]http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8190/russia50.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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