QMX Two Way QSO

I was tuning around last night, after adding the 40m trap to turn my EFHW Inverted-L into a dual band 40n/30m antenna, on 40m.

On 7030kHz I heard a CQ from *G4NNJ** and I replied. It took a couple of tries but then we got into a QSO.

Allan told me he was using a QMX and EFWH…

So I replied “RIG ALSO QMX PWR 5W ANT ALSO EFHW”

We had a nice, short QRP QSO two way QMX ↔ QMX and even exchanged G-QRP Club member numbers, which I've not done for many years.

Conditions have been poor over the weekend, with Geomagnetic storms and K index up to 7! The K-Index was still around 4 during the evening, and up here that tends to mean very poor HF, so I'm really happy to have made the QSO.

I went on to have a second QSO, this time with Ken G0OBK - he was running 25W.

I'm going to try and call/listen on 7030kHz and 10116kHz more often and try to work more QRP operators.