Well 15m was hot yesterday,too bad I had very limited time to play! I happened to be listening to the locals chatting on 146.52 and one mentioned about 15m being open and lots of signals.Tuning to 15m did reveal lots of signals but the one that caught My ear was VU2PAI from India. I need India and He was just commenting on "only those who need India and lets start with zero's first". I threw My call out and a curt reply back said He's listening up five!- oops, I broke a cardinal rule--listen first dummy!! With My tail between My legs so to speak :) I went split and proceeded to try to make contact. Luckily running split and by the numbers made for a much more organized chaos! I did hear several locals get thru- running power and tri-banders and was starting to wonder if My measily vertical and barefoot would ever be heard. All too quickly VU2PAI announced last zero-- I threw out My call again and - HE came back to uniform-juliett-juliett again? I gave Him My call and report and He came back with W0UJJ-- what?-No its N0UJJ and the correction was noted and He was in the log!! Right after Me He switched to "ones" and the first one was someone He knew from before and they chatted for a bit then VU2PAI switched to low power-QRP 5w and then 1w and I copied both power levels OK. Not surprising since with the amp He was 10-20 over! I next worked YL2KO from Latvia before I really needed to get back to some chores. I did notice both contacts are again direct or Bureau and I've actually been checking into the ARRL option plus several others - one of those being Global QSL which sounds interesting. I'm looking for the least cost one! No surprise there!! 73---Tim
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