Reminds me of the thrill I got working New Zealand on 20 meters with an old Ten-Tec PM-3A. It ran about 3 watts out. Worked them with a simple dipole about 12' high suspended between the eaves of the house and a clothesline pole!
One evening on the Mississippi river levee, waiting for a ship to arrive, I worked a scad of Pacific stations at the tail end of a net on 15 meters. (Kwajalien, Guam, E. Carolines, Hawaii and American Samoa), all with a 3 watt PEP TenTec "Argonaut" and a Hustler mobile whip on my truck on SSB! Haven't been that excited in years! Well, no maybe working DX on my K1 and random wire indoors a year or so ago. But the best thrill was the first long haul QRP with the ZL! 73, Sandy W5TVW K1 #1178 ----- Original Message ----- From: "wayne burdick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]>; "QRP-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:49 PM Subject: [Elecraft] when demonstrations really go well | 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 | | _______________________________________________ | 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 | _______________________________________________ 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
