RE: LeoThread 2025-06-02 03:23
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USA counties.
Imagine having a two-ray radio contact with ALL of them.
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Imagine having a two-ray radio contact with ALL of them.
That's 3,144 counties!
Just imagining the dedication and patience needed to make two-way radio contact with every single one of them is mind-blowing.
Respect to anyone who’s pulled this off that’s not a hobby, that’s a legacy.
Ham radio legends in action!
There are hundreds of counties which have not a single Amateur in it, and maybe dozens of them even without permanent inhabitants. So we chased mobile stations.
I had a very good, detailed Rand McNally US road map (~60 pages),
And once I catch a mobile station not far from "tough" needed county - I used to give that US vehicle driver a directions, with road numbers and distances, asking him to go to that county, and "activate" it.
Counties usually have road signs marking county-line.
So the mobile just enter into new county, and makes a new, another contact with me. :)
Giving me one more. Step-by-step to 3144
Plus, it had to be at the right time of the day, on the right frequency band, to have a good enough radio-propagation conditions between USA and Europe.
It was a challenge.
That's incredible!
That level of strategy, coordination and patience is pure dedication.
Giving road directions across the Atlantic just to “activate” a county contact? Radio chess at its finest!
Huge respect for chasing 3144 one transmission at a time.
Impressive work indeed, but somehow I am not surprised coming from you. 😜
It looks like a tricky challenge ;-).
Yes, this was two radio was the chat in that era. Long distance calls were expensive so having a radio and talking to someone from across the globe was as exciting when internet chats came out.
This is hilarious
That’s not just a hobby… that’s dedication on a national level!
Seriously impressive.
That’s not just dedication that’s legendary ham radio history in the making. Total radio mastery.
Probably a lot of noise... or a party. :))
i can only imagine