Good Day Everyone,
In a recent discussion concering KX3 battery life, Wayne N6KR mentioned:
Transceive operating time from an internal battery will be determined by
voltage or energy-density limitations of the 8 AA cells being used. You'd
probably be transmitting something like 10% of the time
few times he
gave it.
Matthew Pitts
N8OHU
From: John Flynn gio.fl...@gmail.com
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 6:25 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Good QRP practice?
Good Day Everyone,
In a recent discussion concering KX3 battery life
] Good QRP practice?
Based on my own experiences in QRP, you need to be sure of what the other
person's callsign is when using less than optimal antennas, so you need to
listen to be sure you have things right; I missed making a contact at
lunch a few weeks ago because I didn't catch the guy's
Good question John. I think Wayne was proposing a bottom line
estimate from a somewhat more complex problem. There are a lot of
variables to consider. Morse code is scaled in dot-times [DT]. Dots
and inter-element spaces are 1 DT each. Dashes are 3 DT. Letter spaces
are 3 DT, and word
It's not a hard-and-fast rule, John, nor is it limited to QRP. Good
operating practice is to listen more than talk. In a QSO you may talk as
much as the other station, for a 50-50 ratio. If you're long-winded, you may
exceed that, Hi!
But, when looking for a contact, take the time to listen to
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