I love chasing DXpeditions. For E51D, N. Cook, due to a minor injury, I found myself "trapped" in my evil lair in far Northern California near Lake Almanor, CN90. Stranded with only a K3S, KPA500, and KAT500-- I could only put up a 15m inverted V on an MFJ mast at 15ft, and a high-power Hamstick on 40m at 8ft. Two pathetic radials. Fortunately for me, these were up before my unplanned dive onto cement. My temporary QTH is down in a bowl, surrounded by high trees. Mt. Lassen is a mere 18 miles away by pyroclastic flow, smack-dab between me and Japan. The Hamstick is designed for SSB, obviously, and I did not not get an an answer from MFJ as to how much power it could take on CW. As time in the pileup went on, the PWR knob crept clockwise. Never have I been so happy to have a dx op running at 40wpm! To my astonishment, the KAT500 loaded up the little V on 10, 12, 17, and 20m to an SWR around 1.5, and the 40m Hamstck on 30m below 2. UNBELIEVEABLE. No salted snow in sight! Thanks to the great ears of the E51D CW ops, low local noise, plenty of time on my hands, and the SUPERB KAT500, I worked them on 10-40M CW, and had a blast doing it. Thank you, Elecraft!
73, Eric NF6S ex WD6DBM  ______________________________________________________________ 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
