Thanks Wayne for the encouragement. Since I’ve become involved in our local club-Portland Amateur Radio Club, or PARC , we’ve encouraged members to get out of the home shack and try outdoor operating. As is true with many urban dwellers we all fight noise and space issues,and no better way to hear what the bands are doing plus get some exercise. SOTA has become very popular here in Oregon-lots of summits of varying degrees of accessibility so almost everyone can participate. Also been a real boost to QrP and CW.
Dan Presley 503-701-3871 danpresley@me. com n7...@arrl.net > On Sep 24, 2022, at 22:54, Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote: > > And thank you for getting outdoors to operate, Dan. That's the real reason > for the AX line :) > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > >> On Sep 24, 2022, at 10:09 PM, Dan Presley <n7...@arrl.net> wrote: >> >> All this discussion about the antenna caused me to carve out a little time >> this afternoon to go to a suburban summit. Perfect setting for the AX1 as >> there’s no good trees and since it’s also somewhat of a park -wires around >> and in the air are frowned on. Also with limited time a quick setup and tear >> down is important. My usual setup is a small lightweight tripod (light >> stand) that goes to 6 feet and elevated radials (3 13’). I have alligator >> clips on the end of the radials for easy attachment to anything like some >> grass or a shrub. ATU in the KX2 hardly ‘clicked’ for a match. In 45 minutes >> I worked 22 stations (12 states),Japan and 4 ‘S2S’-summit to summit >> contacts on 20 and 15 M CW 5 watts. Best report was 599 from OK..almost >> pulled off an S2S with JH3PLL. Kept asking ‘N7??’ but we couldn’t quite pull >> it off. And everything except the tripod packs into a small LowePro bag. >> Summit W7O/WV-099 if you follow that. Thanks for a great product Wayne. >> >> >> Dan Presley 503-701-3871 >> danpresley@me. com >> n7...@arrl.net >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to n...@elecraft.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
