Re: [IRCA] UltraLight List of Firsts and Records

["Joe Miller, KJ8O" <ab8yp@xxxxxxxxx>]

To Gary, John and the group,

I must have deleted my original e-mail, but somewhere
around December 12 or 13, I logged KOA 850 Denver from
my home in Troy Michigan. At 1,277 miles (per
Mapquest), does this qualify under any of the firsts?

73 de Joe


--- D1028Gary@xxxxxxx wrote:

> To John Bryant and Others,
>  
>      I am thrilled that the Ultralight List of
> Firsts  and Records is 
> provoking such a great surge in pocket radio
> interest, much like  the SRF-59 review 
> itself accomplished!
>  
>     Special thanks go to John, who has volunteered
> his  superb organizational 
> talent to give some direction to a bewildered group
> of  newly-minted, wildly 
> enthusiastic pocket radio fanatics.
>  
>      At the risk of sounding proud, I wish to humbly
>  claim the honor of 
> having the first transoceanic reception using an 
> SRF-59 (JOIB-747 on November 20, 
> 2007) and the first reception of South Korea 
> (HLCA-972 on November 22, 
> 2007).  JOAK-594 was heard in between these two  on
> November 20, but as we all 
> know, the band has taken a serious dive since  then,
> providing only a couple of TP 
> loggings on an SRF-M37V  in late November (JOIB and
> JOAK again), and a fluke 
> logging of JOAK on the  new SRF-T615 digital wonder
> in December (on the night 
> that it arrived from  Japan, obviously homesick for
> the land of its birth).
>  
>      Dennis Vroom, in his great generosity, has 
> provided me with severe 
> competition in pocket radio TP DX, but I will let
> him  post the full details of 
> his loggings, including one of JOUB-747 (never heard
>  here) which may very well 
> hold the record for the farthest transoceanic
> contact  to date.
>  
>      One final word to you East Coast Ultralight  TA
> DXers: the West Coast 
> has a serious head start on you guys for  total
> Ultralight transoceanic DX 
> accomplishment!  If you don't  organize, and supply
> your top TA DXers with SRF-59's 
> immediately, the  Culprit may be forced to do it
> personally, rather than have 
> the 2008  competition turn into a boring cakewalk! A
> word to the wise... hi.
>  
>                                                     
>                          
>                            73,  Gary DeBock
>  
>                                            
> 
> 
> 
> 
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