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He had a giant beam antenna up on a tower running 100 watts so he wasn't running power or anything. But his dad, who is Robin, W7 Yankee Echo Delta, has a really nice setup with a big tower and everything. He's 2.2 miles from my house as the crow flies. So we made the contact. He had to keep asking for my call a few different times. And I wasn't sure if it was because he's still learning CW or something else. But I decided to hand deliver the QSL card. So I wrote a QSL card. They were filled with out. I wrote it to his and met his dad. They were both tickled. I took the time to do that and we talked radio for a bit. And it turns out that the reason he was having trouble copying me was that I was apparently so strong that I was completely desensitizing his receiver. And he couldn't copy the call because it kept basically muting.