His signal was just booming in on 20 meter SSB yesterday evening. It was one of the strongest signals I've heard from India. I wasn't able to get through the pileup, but I heard mention of a homebrew station at his end... Sure enough a look at his QRZ.com site shows that a LOT of solder has been melted in his shack. Both SDR and HDR stuff. Tube projects including an 807 amplifier made from "components collected from the scrapyard." And a homebrew 20 meter Moxon. Check it out:
FB Denny!
Kerala is on the southwest tip of India. It is something of a hotbed of technological innovation. My only Indian contact using my current series of homebrew dual-banders was with VU3TPW -- Renju is also in Kerala.
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That gentleman has some serious skills!
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Actually my good friend Ken K4NMG who lives two miles from me here in Orlando with a Yagi and 1KW worked this guy Sunday on 14.255MHZ @ 1130Z and sent me an email right afterward reporting that the fellow was homebrew with 130 watts but I have never heard India on my dipole, and if my 10W was ever heard there I do not know if my heart could handle the shock.
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