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QRP Club => Welcome to the Club => Topic started by: N8LA on February 09, 2016, 13:32:16 UTC

Title: N8LA Introduction
Post by: N8LA on February 09, 2016, 13:32:16 UTC

  My name in Lou Axeman.  My call is N8LA.  I live in Saint Louis, Missouri USA.  I have been involved in QRP since 1978 when I joined the Michigan QRP Club (Nr 0078) in Lansing, Michigan USA where I lived at the time.  I also belong to the Saint Louis QRP Society, QRP ARCI, G QRP Club, North American QRP CW Club, Flying Pigs QRP Club, and 4 States QRP Club.  I operate QRP CW 99% of the time using one of my many QRP rigs (KX-3, FT-817, Argonaut 515, HW8, HW9, etc.)  My antenna is a 200 foot dipole up 35 feet around the roof parapet of the condo complex where we live.  It is fed with 450 window line and an MFJ-9211 4:1 QRPocket current balun.  I have had good luck with this antenna, winning single operator QRP for Missouri once in the ARRL CW DX Contest and the ARRL 160 Meter CW Contest, and twice the ARRL 10 Meter CW Contest.  My confirmed DX entity count from this location is presently 65.

72, Lou  N8LA/QRP

Title: Re: N8LA Introduction
Post by: VE2TH on February 11, 2016, 00:16:18 UTC

Good evening Lou,

A warm welcome to this friendly forum, it is nice to meet you here, and sure you have a lot of fun
with your stealth set-up.

As we can see on your QRZ page, you have a very nice set-up of various nice QRP rigs.-

You shall meet here a bunch of QRP maniacs Hi!

Hope to work you again on bands, as we had a QSO into the NAQCC Sprint june 10, 2015 on 20 meters.
I'm always (time permit) around the QRP frequencies lurking around.

Best 72/73 Michel

NAQCC # 0214
QRP ARCI # 5885
SKCC # 10361