I know the feeling! I was fooling around sending into a cantenna with my HW 100. This was in the early 1970's, and I thought that a resistor inside a grounded metal can would not let any signal out! It was a major surprise, to say the least, when someone came back to me. Only about a mile away, but this was my first QRP contact. The next was still 25 years in the future.
Rick Dettinger K7MW > > I connected a hand key and a battery in series, paid out a roll of guy > wire and tossed it on the roof, then started listening around the > rig's 40-m frequency with my Hallicrafters SX101. A guy up in Los > Angeles was calling CQ, and when he came back to me, I nearly fell off > my chair. 200 miles on 200 mW, with an unmatched wire laying on the > roof and a 9-V battery! > > Wayne > N6KR > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
