Listener Tobias was laid up yesterday, following the extraction of wisdom teeth. (This seems like an appropriate follow-up to our talk in SolderSmoke Podcast #250 of sBITX "wisdom files" to correct FFT "hallucinations.") Tobias does not appear to have been hallucinating, but he was having trouble seeing what he thought to be a "red poster" in my shack.
In fact, what he was seeing was a red tapestry from Ecuador that was sent to me by Galo Constante HC1GC way back in 1993. I was in the Dominican Republic, running my first ever real homebrew transmitter. Here is an article about this project: https://www.gadgeteer.us/TXHB.HTM I think Galo was also QRP homebrew. My log shows that I worked him eight times from the DR.
Mitad del Mundo = Middle of the World (a reference to the equator).
Here is the QSL I got from Galo:
Here's a 2022 blog post about a resurrection of this old rig:
Thanks Tobias for spotting the HC1GC tapestry and reminding me of some great QRP contacts. I hope you feel better OM. 73 Bill
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