Last night (Friday 1 May, 2015) I was on the radio chatting to a number of people including ZS6RKE, ZS6DJD, ZS6MDV, ZS6MSW, ZS6GL, ZS6AG, ZS6TVB, ZS6AF, and G4WOE. It was fun and I made some new friends!
Last night, as I climbed into bed and started to relax and reflect on the QSOs I had just had, it hit me.
To someone (or perhaps even more than one person) I said I was operating my X1M rig on 5W! Now this is what I do 99.9% of the time. I mentioned that I was working off an inverted V on a swimming pool handle in my back yard. This I do 100% of the time – I have no fixed antennas at my QTH.
Last night however, I was operating on my “shack rig” – an old YAESU FT-707.
I am not sure why I told people I was on 5w, but the X1M has impressed me on so many occasions that getting “impressive” responses is not new.
It was not my intention to mislead anyone. I appologise for the error, but it was an honest one.