10 and 15 meters were major players in the CQWW DX SSB contest in late October. There were some big QSO totals on those bands by club members. It was good to have those bands fully in play! Bill, N6RV recorded his highest score ever in the contest, with 2.6M points! He commented that disturbed conditions made it a slow drag until the end when things really picked up. Frank, WA6KHK said it was rough going with only a vertical at the new QTH but also said that will change soon! Marty, N6VI operated from his 20th zone in this contest, operating from Japan (Zone 25) as JF1NHD. Paul, W8GJK had good conditions on the high bands. Ken, K6LA operated VY2TT. He said he was deaf on 160 for some reason. He did very, very well on the other bands, recording a total of 4,472 QSOs! He said that Sunday was amazing! Don, N6IC said it was nice to have better conditions this year. He did single band 15 meters. Dick, N6AA was out in Hawaii at KH7M. There he recorded 4,608 Q's for just over 5M points. Dick, W6TK did multi-single with the XYL. 10, 15 and 40 meters were good for them but 20 wasn't so good and 80 was noisy. And yes, the YL voice (his XYL!) does make a difference in the pileups! Bill, W8QZA was QRP using club call W6QU as usual. He had a couple of thrilling QSOs, one of which he says was by far one of the best of his life. That one was BD4RQ in China on 80m meters Sunday morning 15 minutes before sunrise. He says BY is always tough for him at 5 watts, regardless of the band. And 80 SSB is the land of VE, KL7, KH6 and XE for him. He was stunned to work BY! Nice job, Bill!

Bruce, WA7BNM did single band 15 meters and said that conditions were good Friday evening with lots of activity from Asia. On Saturday morning, he worked a lot of western and southern Europe but heard very little from the eastern side of the continent. Sunday morning was better but he couldn't get anyone from Zone 20 to reply. He was mostly S&P during the contest but managed a couple of brief runs with JA, YB and BY. Dana, K6NR operated remotely and said things worked well for a change. He had fun working Asia and Europe on 10m again. Glenn, K6NA said he had limited time (28 hours) and yet put in a 1.5+ million score! Sheesh! He commented that he didn't run JA on 40 or 20 meters and thus got in plenty of sleep! He said that the SoCal openings to Europe were spotty and mostly to western and southern EU. JA openings on 10 meters were fairly good both days for a couple of hours prior to sunset. The afternoon JA/Asia openings on 15 meters were excellent, he said.

The following weekend was the ARRL Sweepstakes CW contest. Conditions held up and we had a good turn out once again. Dick, W6TK said he was surprised how 80 meters panned out. He made a healthy amount of QSOs there. He commented that operating assisted made getting the sweep easy. He was a bit surprised to have Santa Barbara and Los Angeles as his last two mults. John, KF6I put in a pretty serious effort, he said, and got the sweep for the first time in a long while. Joe, W6AYC did QRP for the first time. He didn't know what to expect but logged 658 Q's and 83 mults, pretty darn good; I would say! Ken, K6LA again operated VY2TT. With PEI now its own multiplier and the VY2ZM station now dismantled, there was good news and bad. He had a steady stream of callers on Saturday but still experienced slow going on Sunday. And naturally, he missed the PEI mult and thus missed the sweep. Joe, AA2IL had good conditions and did get the sweep. Kurt, W6PH has only one antenna up at the moment so he did a single band 10 meter effort with his 5 elements at 60 feet. It played well, I would say. 542 Q's and 80 sections in just nine hours! Jim, K6ZH did SOLP in memory of Paul, WN6K (SK) who always did that category in SS. Jim got his first sweep in quite a while. He needed three when he hit the hay Saturday night, and got those last three by 9:30 am Sunday. "Much to my wife's chagrin, I will buy yet another Clean Sweep coffee mug," he said. Dana, K6NR reported that the bands were in good shape with strong signals especially on 10, 15 and 80 meters. He started Sunday with just one mult left but worked that one mid-morning, the semi-elusive VO1HP. LAX was apparently quite the catch in this contest. Dana reported it as one of the last two he worked Saturday night (and other SCCCers reported it as one of their last too). He saw NI6W spotted Sunday and tuned in to find quite the pileup on him.

Then, at the end of the month, we had arguably the SCCC favorite contest of the year, the CQWW DX CW Contest. While the SFI was a little lower and the A index a little higher than the two had been earlier in the month of November, 10 and 15 meters were popping, and it was great to have them pretty much fully back! On Sunday morning in fact, 15 was so crowded that stations could be heard all the way up to 21.130 MHz and above! The Contest Online Scoreboard (and by the way, where were all the SCCCers on it? Only four stations were reporting in! C'mon guys, get with the program! It's very easy to configure your contest logger to report in.) showed LW1F recording the highest hourly QSO rate at an incredible 443 Q's per hour! Now, most of us mere mortals have probably recorded only a few hours at or just over 100-120 Q's per hour in our entire lifetime. And think about that those of you that have. Everything went right, no? Good conditions, a clear run frequency, you were loud to a lot of areas at the same time, you were picking out calls easily, there weren't a lot of repeats needed, and you were on your game. Now take it the level of 400+ QSOs per hour! It boggles the mind! As for contest expeditions, we know that N6TJ was at KH6YY using the KH7Q call, often with a big signal into the USA, N6AA and two others were scheduled to go to Zone 38 in South Africa, and N5ZO was VK6N in Zone 29. I don't have intel on others at the moment but these three were copied tearing things up in the contest.

Paul, K6PO put in a little time doing single band 10 meters between his time at the multi-op NX6T effort. He said it was nice to see 10 open again. Paul, W8GJK had a goal of 100,000 points in his first CQWW CW contest with the new hexbeam and amplifier. He did the entire contest S&P and achieved his goal. Bill, N6RV commented that despite the relatively low SFI, EVERYTHING was open! He worked some Europeans on 10 and ran them on 20 and 15. He also said that long path was exceptional into Central Asia. Frank, WA6KHK experienced a power outage but managed 500 Q's with only a vertical. Jim, W6YA said it was nice to have 15m in good shape. He missed Zones 17, 21, 22, 34 and 37. Bruce, WA7BNM did mostly S&P. He did the first half of the contest from home. He operated remotely on Sunday using SDR Control and RemotePC to use his station. Dick, W6TK had pretty good conditions until Saturday evening and Sunday when noise cropped up. 10 meters stayed open longer than expected and 15 was gang busters for him. Mike, W4EF tackled some remodeling work at the remote site but played radio during breaks. He had some decent JA runs on 40, 15 and 10 meters. He didn't get on 15 or 10 either morning and thus missed Europe on those two bands. He couldn't get any traction on 160 on Saturday night and thought perhaps some high angle propagation mode was in play.

Jim, N6TJ used the KH7Q callsign at KH6YY. He didn't hear many Europeans and thought USA activity was down. He did have great signals and lots of them from China and Japan. He operated Single Band 15 meters this time around. Ken, K6LA was at VY2TT again this year but ran into a lot of rotator issues due to Hurricane Ida. He wound up leaving the 20 and 40 meter yagis fixed on Europe. Despite the handicap, he turned in a nearly 10M point total! Marko, N5ZO was VK6N at VK6ANC (as we mentioned earlier). He said that the contest began with good conditions and he spent all of Saturday on the higher bands. His expectations for 80 and 160 were quite low due to only having low dipoles available but he was pleasantly surprised to work a few Europeans, and that motivated him to try harder on those two low bands. Conditions on the high bands were much worse on Sunday. 10m didn't open until the very end when the USA west coast popped in. Sunday night, 40, 80 and 160 were very productive. This was his 35th Zone in CQWW. All 40 Zones are now showing at the end of the tunnel! Dana, K6NR said it was a great contest with activity from all over the world. The bands were open pretty well for him, though not quite as good as during the SSB contest. Early Saturday afternoon, he was hoping to run JA's on 10m but didn't hear any. He pointed the beam toward Japan and called CQ. He then spent the next two hours running JAs and a few other Asian countries. Bill, W8QZA was once again using the W6QU club call and running QRP. He agreed that conditions were pretty good, and he put in his highest score since 2015. He worked eight BY stations this time in fact. He says they usually can't copy his five watts. Tim, N6GP felt that he spent more time on 10 than he should have and that 15 was really his money band. Unfortunately, his yagi was stuck northeast, precluding working South America and Japan for the most part. He didn't get on 80m Friday night and when he did on Saturday night, it was dead. Quiet but dead.

CQ has published the raw scores from the recent CQWW DX SSB contest. These are the scores before log checking. Check them out here.

NCJ has now published the final results of the August NAQP CW contest. Marko, N5ZO took second place in the SO Assisted category. Congrats Marko! SSB and RTTY results have also been published.

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON USE OF PHONETICS

by Marty Woll, N6VI
Contesters are regular users of phonetics, both during contests and otherwise. The ICAO phonetic alphabet is probably considered the “gold standard” and is used regularly in military and aviation operations as well. Its advantages stem from the uniqueness of vowel sounds in each “letter”. In difficult conditions, the consonants are usually the first to become unintelligible. When the ICAO alphabet is used correctly, the combination of vowel sounds is unique for each character, thus making letters easier to distinguish. Compare this with, say, the APCO phonetic alphabet used by many law enforcement agencies. I’ve witnessed repeated copy errors when Paul was heard as Tom or Ida heard as Adam. The words (mostly names) are common enough, but some of them lack the uniqueness that makes them easy to understand coming from a weak or noisy station. It’s no surprise, then, that contesters tend to default to the ICAO phonetic alphabet.

During my recent CQ WW DX SSB contest operation from Japan (October, 2022 - ed), that’s just what I did. For over a day I was using “Juliet Foxtrot One November Hotel Delta” when calling another station or calling CQ. However, I found that I was getting what I considered an unusually high number of requests for fills or repeats. This led me to trying alternate phonetics, and I experienced an immediate reduction in such requests once I made the change. What was the magic combination? It was “Japan Florida One Norway Hotel Denmark” (substituting “Honolulu” for Hotel “ in a few stubborn cases). Why did this work more effectively, I wondered. After all, Florida isn’t even a country. However, upon reflection, using “Japan Florida” has become such common practice for Hams with JF prefixes that it seemingly gets instant recognition. For another, “Delta” was often misheard as “Papa”, probably because so many people incorrectly accent the first syllable rather than the second, making the vowel combination less unique than the designers of the ICAO alphabet intended.

The lesson I took home was to try something different when the “right way” is not achieving the desired result.

My deepest thanks to my host, Norio Inomata, for the opportunity and hospitality he provided.

73,
Marty N6VI



While S&Ping in the CQWW DX CW contest last month, I came across (more than once) the famous west coast call sign W7RM. This prompted me to look up the call on QRZ.com and see who had it now days. Turns out the Williamette Valley DX Club thankfully has custody of the call. Rush Drake (SK) made a name for himself on the air with his very big and highly respected station up in Washington. Rush passed away back in 2005 and is an inductee of the CQ Contest Hall of Fame. According to the QRZ write up, nearly 100 operators contested at his station over the years, including SCCCers N6MJ and N6TR. The QRZ write up is a fun read and and has many old photos. It's a great look back in time. Check it out here.



One of the greatest "DX" antennas on the planet will not be rebuilt. In 2020, the 1,000 foot wide Arecibo radio telescope collapsed making it unusable. Many scientists hoped that it would be rebuilt or replaced with something even better. The facility had contributed to many breakthroughs in astronomy and cosmology. It also played an important role in SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. However, the National Science Foundation announced in early October that it won't do either. More on the story can be found here.

WWROF Announces New Scholarships

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(please forward to contest and DX club email lists)

Cleveland, OH – November 16, 2022 – The World Wide RadioOperators Foundation (WWROF) is pleased to announce a new scholarship program.

The WWROF will award up to two scholarships of $2500 each to amateurs who demonstrate active on-the-air operation, including entering contests or achieving awards such as DXCC or WAS. There are no restrictions on applicant nationality, place of residence, location of institution, or intended field of study. Preference will be given to applicants 25 years of age or younger.

The WWROF scholarships will be administered by the ARRLFoundation. Online applications are now being accepted for the 2023 awards.The deadline is Wednesday, January 4, 2023, at 12:00 PM (noon) EST (1700 UTC).

WWROF Chairman Tim Duffy, K3LR, commented, “We have received several donations earmarked for Youth programs. The WWROF created these scholarships to enable active young operators to continue their studies.”

For information on applying for these scholarships, see www.arrl.org/scholarship-descriptions.

About WWROF

The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF) was created in 2009 by a group of radio operators who saw a need for an independent organization devoted to the skill and art of radio operating. We believe that amateur radio contests provide a means of testing operating skill and that worldwide contest sponsors can benefit from the support we can provide. WWROF owns, operates, and maintains the log-processing systems and awards programs for contests sponsored by CQ magazine and others. For more information visit www.wwrof.org

If you need a break from contesting for a few minutes, check out this 25 minute video broadcast recently on Montana's PBS station. It's a fun amateur radio show that touches several ham radio specialties that we enjoy. One of the great things about being a ham is the large number of different things we can participate in. And this video reminds us of that. I think you'll enjoy it. Check it out here.





On a totally different note, a non-contesting one in fact, I became a proud grandpa once again last month. Probably the last grandchild to join the Younker family on my particular branch of the tree, although rumor has it the parents may try for their second before long. My only child without a child of her own had her first on November 8 at 6:08 pm, a beautiful little girl named Ruby who joined us quite healthy at 7 lbs 2 oz and 20.5 inches. Naturally, she mostly kept her momma awake her first night home on the 9th. Both are doing very well and getting used to a new normal. Will Ruby become a Younker SCCCer one day? I hope so!





Strange but true...
There is an opposite of albino animals, which aren't white but black. These are known as Melanistic animals.

73 for now,
--Dennis NE6I

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Our November,2022 poll was "I subscribe to one or more amateur radio magazines."

 28% subscribe to one, 33% subscribe to two, 17% subscribe to three, 17% subscribe to more than three and 5%
 don't subscribe to any.

Our October, 2022 poll was "My ham shack computer is:"

 72% said shared with other tasks (I.E., email, web browsing, spreadsheets, documents, etc.). 24% said it was
 dedicated to their ham radio activities. 6% said they don't have a computer in the ham shack. 

Our September, 2022 poll was another two parter. "When the FCC discontinued the Morse Code requirement for 
 amateur radio licensees, I:" and part two was "Now that it has been many years without the Morse Code 
 requirement,"

44% of respondents didn't care either way. 38% disagreed with the decision. 13% were worried that amateur 
radio would become like the CB channels. To the second question, 63% have no opinion either way. The other
37% think it was a good decision.

Our August, 2022 poll was a two parter. "Do you have/own an HF amplifier? If so, which brand. And, is it 
 a tube or solid state amp?"

50% of respondents said they have an Alpha amplifier. 30% said Elecraft. 11% said OM Power. 5% said Heathkit 
and another 5% said Acom.  56% said their amp uses tubes and 33% said their amp is solid state. 11% do not have 
an amplifier. 

Our July, 2022 poll was "A must do contest for me is"

A whopping 30% said CQWW DX CW! 14% said Sweepstakes CW. The balance was divided equally amont the rest 
of the contests lin the poll.

Our June, 2022 poll was "I will be operating Field Day this year"

39% said with a club at a park or other location away from home. Another 39% said from home said from home.
22% said they wouldn't be participating this year.

Our May, 2022 poll was "My first contest was:"

22% said the Novice Roundup. 17% each said ARRL Sweepstakes, a state QSO Party, CQWW DX, or another contest. 
 10% said the ARRL International DX Contest. 

Our April, 2022 poll was "Your top QSOs per hour rate over a full 60 minutes is:"

47% said 61-70. 18% said 41-50 and another 18% said 81-90. 17% said 41-50. 

Our March, 2022 poll was "In a single contest weekend, you have worked 100 DXCC entities."

36% said yes and 64% said no.

Our February, 2022 poll was "You are only allowed to contest on one band, the band of your choice. Which one 
would it be?"

42% said 40 meters, 27% said 20 meters, 15% said 15 meters, 8% said 10 and 4% said 160. 4% said 2 meters or 
above.

Our January, 2022 poll was"Continuing with last month's typing subject, for those of you that touch type, 
did you learn to do so in a class, on the internet (including a typing app or program), or are you self 
taught?"

50% said in a class. 19% said self taught and 31% said they use hunt and peck instead.

Our December, 2021 poll was"When using contest software, do you touch type or hunt and peck?"

61% said hunt and peck. 39% said touch type.

Our November, 2021 poll was "Have you ever owned a Heathkit Radio transmitter, receiver or transceiver?"

70% said yes, in the past. 18% said they own one or more now and 12% said no.

Our October, 2021 poll was "Have you ever owned a Collins Radio transmitter, receiver or transceiver?"

11% said yes, in the past. 17% said they own one or more now and 72% have never owned one. 

Our September, 2021 poll was "I plan on purchasing at least one new station accessory in the 
coming year."

80% said yes and 20% said no. Are you listening, vendors?

Our August, 2021 poll was "I plan on installing at least one new antenna in the coming year."

64% said yes and 36% said no.

Our July, 2021 poll was "The last time I visited a brick and mortar ham radio store was"

47% said in the past two to four years. 37% said in the past year. 16% said five or more years ago.

Our June, 2021 poll was "My career (or former career if retired) is/was in the electronics or 
telecommunications industry."

53% said yes and 47% said no. 

Our May, 2021 poll was "I have a family member who is also a licensed amateur radio operator."

44% said yes and 56% said no. 

Our April, 2021 poll was "My significant other_____in contests."

60% said tolerates me participating. 15% said encourages me to participate. 10% said doesn't care if I 
participate and another 10% said sometimes participates with me. 5% said they don't have a significant 
other.

Our March, 2021 poll was "Keeping with the theme of last month's poll, my favorite 
type of contest is:"

47% said DX. 33% said stateside. And 20% said both.

Our February, 2021 poll was "My favorite contests are (those in duration):"

28% said 48 hour contests, 11% said 30 hour contests, 5% said 24 hour contests, 17% said 
10 hour contests, 5% said 4 hour contests and 5% said 1 hour contests. 22% said all of
the above! One respondent said all of the above with the exception of Field Day and 
those with other complicated exchanges. 

Our January, 2021 poll was "Do you prefer hard copy QSLs or electronic ones?"

19% said they prefer hard copy (paper) QSLs, 50% said they prefer electronic QSLs (IE, LOTW, 
eQSL, QRZ, etc.), 25% said they had no preference, and 6% said they do not QSL at all. 

Our December, 2020 poll was "I sometimes have conflicts between contest events and
 family events on holiday weekends preventing me from as much participation in one or
 both of them as I'd like.

17% said often, 56% said occasionally, 22% said contesting always wins out, and 5% said
 family events always win out. 

Our November, 2020 poll asked "Is your antenna system mostly:"

42% answered less than 5 years old. 16% each answered 5-10 years old, 11-15 years old 
 or 16-20 years old. 10% answered more than 20 years old.

Our October, 2020 poll asked "Is your current primary transciever:"

43% answered 5-10 years old. 30% said less than 5 years old. 17% said 11-15 years old and
 10% said more than 20 years old.

Our September, 2020 poll was two parts. "Are you an ARRL member?"

87% said yes and 13% said no.

Are you a paid member of any other club other than ARRL?

73% said yes and 27% said no.

Our July, 2020 poll was "Where do you typically operate Field Day from?

23% said from home, 6% said portable by themselves, 59% said with a club and 12% said they
 don't typically operate Field Day.

Our June, 2020 poll was "Did you discover amateur radio on your own?

35% said yes, 35% said that they discovered it via a family member and 30% said that they
 discovered it via a friend.

Our May, 2020 poll was "Have you ever built and/or used Heathkit amateur radio equipment?"

65% said they have both built and used Heathkits. 20% said they have used but not built them
 and 15% have neither built nor used a Heathkit.

Our April, 2020 poll was "Did you participate in the National Traffic System (NTS)?"

25% said yes and 75% said no.

Our February, 2020 poll was "What is your thought on the new digital modes as it pertains
 to contesting?"

27% said great! And another 27% said "not for me." 21% said "they are poisoning amateur radio
 contesting." Wow, brutal. 14% said they haven't tried them. 8% said "not bad" and 3% said
 "unsure / too early to day."

Our January, 2020 poll was "Have you ever operated in a RTTY contest?"

86% said yes and 14% said no. 

Our December, 2019 poll was "Have you ever operated in a VHF contest?"

86% said yes and 14% said no. 

Our November, 2019 poll was "Do you operate in very many contests just to have some
 fun / hand out some contacts?"

86% said yes and 14% said a few.

Our October, 2019 poll was "LOTW has revolutionized QSLing. How do you respond to
 hard copy QSLs that you receive after a contest?

87% said they send a return QSL the same way the incoming card was received (direct or via
 the Bureau). 13% said they send electronic QSLs only (IE, LOTW, eQSL, QRZ and/or other).

Our September, 2019 poll was "If you could go or are going on a Contest Dxpedition
 next year, where would you go?"

75% said to the Caribbean! 25% said somewhere in the Pacific.

Our August, 2019 poll was a two parter. "Do you miss (or wish we had) SCCC pizza meetings?"

20% said Yes, I really miss them. Another 20% said Yes, I hear they were a good time.
 10% said I could take them or leave them. Another 10% said No, I'm not that interested in
 attending meetings at this time. 60% said I probably wouldn't be able to attend many of them
 due to distance or other reason.

The second question was "If we had SCCC meetings, I would..."

10% said Attend as many as possible. 20% said Attend them if they were less than an hour's
 drive. 40% said Attend now and then. 20% said Might attend some of them, and 10% said Probably
 wouldn't attend any of them.

Our July, 2019 poll was "When was your first contest?"

16% said 2010 or later. 5% said 2000-2009 and another 5% said 1990-1999. 32% said 1970-1979.
 26% said 160-1969 and 16% said 1950-1959.

Our June, 2019 poll was "Have you ever operated a Dxpedition in a contest?"

25% said yes, as part of a multi-op DXpedition. 25% said no. 20% said yes, as a single op.
 Another 20% said no, but I would like to! And 10% said yes, both as a multi-op and as a single-op.

Our May, 2019 poll was "Have you ever operated mobile or portable in a contest
 (not a DXpedition)?

35% said both, 35% said no, 20% said portable and 10% said mobile.

Our April, 2019 poll was "For manual CW sending, what do you use?"

65% of our respondents said a keyer. 35% said contest software. 12% said a straight key and
 5% said a bug. 8% said other.

Our March, 2019 poll was "What logging software do you use in contests?"

75% of our respondents said N1MM+. 10% said Writelog and another 10% said N3FJP. 5% each said
 TRLog/TR4W, Win-test or other.

Our February, 2019 poll was "Do you use high, low or QRP power in contests?"

56% of our respondents said high power. 21% said low power and 13% said QRP.

Our January, 2019 poll was "What brand of radio to you use primarily in contests?"

25% of our respondents said Yaesu. 18.75% said Kenwood. 12.5% said Icom. 6.25% said Flex, and
 43.75% said Other. We should have included Elecraft! 

Our December, 2018 poll was "Have you ever hosted a guest operator at your station?"

11% of our respondents said yes. 89% said no.

Our November, 2018 poll was "Have you ever operated multi-op in a contest (home or away)?"

80% of our respondents said yes. 20% said no.

Our October, 2018 poll was "What is your favorite contest mode?"

76% of our respondents favored CW. 12% favored SSB and 6% favored RTTY. 6% had no favorite mode.

Our September, 2018 poll was "What is your favorite contest?"

CQP took the top spot. CQWW DX, WPX, NA Sprint and Sweepstakes all tied for second.

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FOR SALE: Yaesu FT-950 with mic and power cable. Also has an added BNC IF output to connect a band scope or monitor. Located in Torrance $650 Contact: Tim, K6TW E-mail: tim [at] timgoodrich [dot] com Posted 1 Nov 2022 FOR SALE: Elecraft K3/100 Transceiver 100 watts, 2.7 kHz SSB filter KXV3 I/O transverter KIO3 RS232 Great entry level radio Power cord and manual $1295 Same as above with a built in tuner $1495. If you want custom options, please email. I have many options available that are not being made by Elecraft. Filters KSYN3A upgraded SYN board. DVR's Sub Receivers P3 Panadapter $795.00 Add VGA $1050 Contact Larry, K6RO Lashap at cox.net 310-710-2869 Posted 20 Oct 2021 WANTED: Johnson Invader 2000 Power Supply. I recently acquired an Invader 2000 but without the power supply and missing all the cabinet-mounting hardware, including the two long bolts from the back to the front panel common to most Johnson rigs. WANTED: Kaar KE-23A or KE-23AT communications receiver. Contact Steve, K0XP k0xp (at) k0xp dot com Posted 19 June 2020, renewed 6 July 2021 FOR SALE: I have a two year-old SteppIR DB36 with 80 M dipole option for sale. The stepper motors, controller, etc all work perfectly, and the boom and trombones/straight fiberglass poles are in good shape. You will likely need to replace some of the small parts (some bolts and Nylock nuts), but can have a working DB-36 for less than half of what it cost new. I'm selling the antenna because the trees near the antenna became so large that tilting it over was becoming impossible, and I purchased a DB-18E to replace it. I have some extra fiberglass poles that I will include, and I guarantee that the antenna will work (motors, etc.). Due to the weight and size, I'm thinking it's going to have to be a pickup in the San Diego area. I might be willing to remove the heat shrink couplings and try to box it if the buyer covers the shipping charges (FedEx ground). Asking $3500 for everything. Seller: Eric, NC6K egruff [at] cox[dot]net Posted 9 Oct 2018, renewed 6 July 2021

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