Why subjecting oneself to such exhaustion is fun, I don't know, but it IS !!!
first, thanks for QSO's from so many of you guys, and the many greetings and good wishes. W5YA, High Desert Wireless QRP Club is a small New Mexico club of a coupla OT's dedicated to helping new comers learn and use CW. Most of our members are enthusiastic and (relatively) young beginners. But field day belongs to us OT's. Steve and I have 90 years of CW experience behind us. We do FD as a class B two-man team. Aging but still youthful, we MUST come up with ways to deploy effective antennas with little energy. Body blows: the first hour produced over 60 QRP QSO's, we were a happy team, when the computer keyboard locked up. It took us half an hour to resolve it, but somewhere in the battle, the log was lost. I am counting on it being recoverable! The second blow was even worse, a lightning storm moved in, 40 mph winds tried but could not hurt our little masts and beam, but it did ZAP Steve's K2. The radio works fine until it tries to transmit, so maybe just the finals zapped. Steve is hand carrying it to Phoenix Tuesday, and we are counting on Gary helping him restore his beloved radio. Come on Gary! We put the back-up K2 on line and returned to work. Recovery: How a QRP K2 can produce a series of sixty plus hours I don't know, all I will say at this point is we have a lot of QSO's in the 1B-2 battery log. thanks again for a great radio! 72, Fred - KT5X Steve - WD9FJL aka W5YA / fd _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
