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ON THE AIR AT LAST ON AIR TESTING WAS A BLAST.  IN KEEPING WITH THE
FRUSTRATION ENCOUNTERED WITH THE SOFTWARE, 30 METERS SEEMED DEAD WHEN I
FIRED UP THE FIREFLY.  I ATTACHED MY ELECRAFT XG 2 TEST OSCILLATOR TO THE
FIREFLY ANTENNA INPUT AND IMMEDIATELY FOUND THE GENERATORS 10R106 MHZ
SIGNAL IN THE SPECTRUM DISPLAY.  TWEAKING C75 AND C87 PEAKED THE RECEIVER
PRESELECTOR FOR MAXIMUM SIGNAL INPUT.  SO MUCH FOR THE RECEIVER ALIGNMENT.
A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER I ASKED MICHAEL TRACY IF HE COULD TRY A QSO FROM
W1AW AND LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE FIREFLY SIGNAL.  NO SOONER WAS I ON
FREQUENCY TESTING THAN MARK WILSON, K1RO, THE PRODUCT REVIEW EDITOR, CAME
UP ON FREQUENCY AND WE CHATTED A BIT.  MARKS SIGNALS WERE A SOLID 599 AND
HE GAVE MY QRP SIGNAL A 579 AT HIS NEW HAMPSHIRE QTH.  IN THE MEANTIME,
MICHAEL AND W1AWS CHIEF OP, JOE CARCIA, NJ1Q, WERE READING ME 599 AND I
WORKED THE HPM MEMORIAL STATION NEXT.  THE FIREFLY SOUNDED GOOD ON BOTH
TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE, AND BEING ABLE TO SEE THE OTHER STATIONS SIGNALS ON
THE DISPLAY WAS EXTREMELY COOL.  A QUICK CLICK OF THE MOUSE AND I WAS ABLE
TO NARROW THE RECEIVER IF PASSBAND TO IMPROVE THE RECEIVED SIGNALS.  HEY,
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KE7PB/336 KG6AM/336 KJ0M/340 KM9G/338 KN4T/346 KR9A/339 KS3F/338 KS4YT/331
KW8T/349 KX4DX/342 LA4OGA/336 LA7AFA/337 LA7JO/347 LU2AH/345 LX2PA/337
N1PM/336 N2JD/345 N3RX/337 N4BQD/337 N4EKD/336 N4RF/337 N4RU/346 N4SZ/340
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