G'day, #1400 @ 100W did a little S&P on 14/21/28 MHz.
I was only looking to see how many states I could snag in between doing other stuff during a wonderfully sunny weekend. I ended up with 30 states plus two provinces out of 104 exchanges plus a few others heard in pile-ups but not worked 'cos I guess they were S&P as well. Only heard/worked three Canadian's. I figured there would be at least one contest super station in each state. Propagation favoured Texas and the other southern states although NY, PA etc also show in the log. Many huge signals. The KAT100 matched my 30 metre vertical on 20 metres with about 80:1 SWR at the antenna with 150 feet of feeder. 30W radiated, 70W warming the worms, the feeder is underground in optical fibre cable ducting. 104 QSO's, 2 Dupes, 63 Mults = 19278 points. No big deal. Now for a fight with the robot. On an off topic subject, anyone know how to change the red rubber fuel priming plunger on a Briggs & Stratton classic 35 lawnmower engine? It presses in but is very slow to return to normal for the next pump. XYL uses the mower so if I have to start it up that's less time on the K2. I guess that makes it on topic! Regards, Mike VP8NO _______________________________________________ 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
