All these QRP/QRO contacts stories, are pretty meaningless to me, *UNLESS* they have antenna, band, and qth information included.
1w/5w/15w from a 3 ele beam @ 70 feet is a bit of a different story from a short clandestine wire and an apartment building.... or 160m vs 20m or DXCC from middle of Europe _or_ middle of Kansas just saying...... ;-) -- GB & 73 K5OAI Sam Morgan On 8/1/2011 12:48 AM, Dave Sergeant wrote: > On 31 Jul 2011 at 22:07, vicki glover wrote: > >> Until I built my K2 (7186) I had no idea that dx on 15 watts was even >> possible. I have been running QRO for a couple of years and making the >> contacts, but getting alot of these same contacts (Sweeden, Hungary, >> Lithuania) on 15 watts with a radio I built is hard to top. Only been >> running this rig for a week or two now, but am extreamly well pleased >> with it. Just wanted to share the joy. 73 mike-kb3qja __ > > 15 Watts is decidedly QRO, I have never run more than 5 Watts from my > K2 in the past 9 years and have 231 DXCC. Last month I worked in the > Club 72 Marathon (http://club72.su/marathon.html) with just 1 Watt for > most of my QSOs and found stations came back just as easily with that > power as they did with 5. Conditions have been pretty dire recently but > nevertheless had quite a few nice QSOs including some in PY and LU. > Give it a go, you will be surprised. > > 73 Dave G3YMC ______________________________________________________________ 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
