Your F-call can do more than you think.

What use is an F-call? Last week I was talking to an amateur in Esperance from Fremantle on 21MHz and he was bemoaning the notion that he needed to upgrade his license because with 10 Watts you couldn't do much. Little did he know that the week before I was sitting in exactly the same spot with my puny little f-license as he thought of it and I was talking to Portland, Oregon. I was listening on 7.146 and a CQ came out from a call-sign I didn't recognise and I answered and sure enough an answer came back and then I found he was talking long-path to South Africa and here I was with my puny little 10 Watts talking to him. He was pumping out 400 Watts and he was amazed that I was doing this off batteries with no amplifiers no anything and hand-made antennas. You know he couldn't quite believe that you didn't have to spend thousands of dollars to make that kind of distance. So your f-call can do more than you think. You just have to figure out how to make it do that. That's the challenge, not more power. Use it better! I'm vk6flab