We Were Soldiers RTO

Someone asked my opinion about a scene in the movie, We Were Soldiers, where the RTO ginned up a doublet antenna for an AN/PRC-25 and copied a firefight in Viet-Nam into the American south. Could it have been done? The PRC-25's were FM at about 5 watts and in the 6 Meter band IIRC. In 1964, about the time of the events, the solar cycle was bottomed out but Sporadic-E propagation is seasonal and not dependent so much, if at all, on the solar cycle. Sporadic-E is the most common  DX mode for 6 Meters. The best I've  done on 6 Meters was about 5K miles to Uruguay at about 8 watts into a dipole variant. This was single sideband mode-more efficient than the FM PRCs. I've heard claims for trans continental with 5Watt FM handhelds so maybe it's possible. Any old RTOs out there have similar stories?

Tis a puzzlement
73 de Rob

Now if I Only Got Iceland and Finland Confirmed

Of course I was QRO (5W)
73 de Rob

15 Meters Got me a New One

At 2.5 watts!   73 de Rob

I Have a Follower!

Chris, KQ2RP was foolish enough to append his call to this blog! While I question his sanity I say FB OM and welcome aboard. And a fly fisherman too-I guess this means expounding on Hillbilly Tenkara.  

73 de Rob

Oh! Goodie Goodie!

A QSL with a zaggy prefix is good, Hawaii is good but a marine mobile is just icing on the cake! 40 and 20 have been nice. Now I've ordered the parts for a tuner to get down to 80 and 160 so the adventure continues.


73 de Rob