Eric (WA6HHQ) and I did a talk about Elecraft at Stanford University
recently. Great club, and the talk went fine.
After the talk, we tossed a 30' or so piece of wire through the window
of the conference room into a tree two floors below. A second wire
about 10' long was used inside the classroom as a ground. We then tuned
up the antenna on 40, 30, and 20 meters to roughly 1:1 using the
internal tuner in a KX1. About 10 seconds after turning power on, I
heard a YL2 calling CQ on 20 meters. With one of the club members
listening on one ear bud, and me listening on the other, I called the
YL2 and got an answer immediately. The 339 signal report did nothing to
diminish the thrill of having worked such great DX with a completely
ad-hoc antenna and 2 watts -- on internal batteries.
It doesn't get much better than this!
(Well, OK, we designed the KX1 and could be exaggerating :)
73,
Wayne
N6KR
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