Friday 30 December 2011

Worked a QRP legend – GM3OXX




I had the pleasure of working one of the QRP legends a few moments ago. I was monitoring 28.060 MHz as I often do and I heard some weak signal calling CQ and the /QRP stood out like a sore thumb.

On careful listening I could make out that it was George Burt GM3OXX/QRP

I called him on QRP and was surprised that he immediately came back to my call. I gave him a 559, but in all honesty he was more like a 339 with QSB.

I then checked him out on Google and QRZ and was pretty chuffed to find that he is one of the great QRP pioneers.


Not sure what power he was using. I will review the recording I made; maybe it will reveal more info.

Who said QRP is for the birds?

73, Pierre ZS6A

2 comments:

  1. Congratulations Pierre on the contact it's nice to run into these contacts now and then.

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  2. Hi Pierre

    You have jogged the memory - I still owe George a QSL card froma couple of years ago - also 2xQRP.

    Its long overdue that I get some printed.

    73
    Vincent ZS6BTY

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