Hi Tony, I agree with Stan and you also. However, you live in NY. The east coast seems to have an easier time of it. I live in Wyoming and I work QRP also with a elevated vertical, an assortment of magnetic loops and a K2. It's not as easy here as it is for you guys on the east coast. ;-)
Gary, N7HTS On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:01:30 -0400 Tony Castellano <tcaste...@optonline.net> wrote: > I totally agree with Stan. I built my K2 less than 2 months ago and have > worked 32 countries with 5 Watts so far. > I also don't have a beam with 10 db gain; I use a plain old dipole, and like > Stan, my average reports are 559. > I have even made a DX contact through a pileup. > I operate only CW and don't even own a mike. Try it, you may like it. > > Tony Castellano W1ZMB > tcaste...@optonline.net > Hopewell Junction, NY > RV-6 > N401TC > > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "stan levandowski" <sjl...@optonline.net> > To: <k5oai....@gmail.com> > Cc: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 9:50 AM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] DX on 15 watts > > >> >> Sam, I clearly see your point. Perhaps I can volunteer some specifics >> from my own QRP station. I live in a townhouse in NY state opposite a >> 1500 foot mountain a half mile away and I'm about 200 feet MSL. My >> antenna is an East/West 44' nonresonant doublet in my attic which loads >> up on 80 through 6 through an SGC-237 autocoupler. However, I presently >> choose to only work 40, 30, and 20. I built and use all the Elecraft >> transceivers. I generally use only 5 watts and I only operate CW. I am >> a QRP fanatic. I've worked 83 countries on 5 watts or less and nearly >> all states with this antenna and my K2 and K3 within the last year. >> I'm a ragchewer, not a paper-chaser so these numbers do not represent >> any kind of concentrated effort. My other antennas are equally >> non-awe-inspiring. A 28 foot wire thrown into a tree, with a 33' >> counterpoise on the ground, regularly gets my K1 signal into Europe and >> South America from my back deck with 559 average reports. A homemade >> magnetic loop sitting in my driveway and 900 milliwatts out of my KX1 >> got to UA1CE in St. Petersburgh on two different occasions. That's >> better than 5000 miles per watt. >> >> QRP is responsible for bringing me back into ham radio. I left the >> hobby for many years after becoming rather bored with how easy it was to >> push the button, aim the tribander on the tower attached to the side of >> my house, toss my 180 watts into the ether and get a reply 99% of the >> time. >> >> For me, QRP became one of those niche areas in ham radio referred to by >> another lister. Every contact is a 'big deal' and when I reach for the >> power knob on my rig its usually to turn it *down* even further just to >> see how low I can go. I've been milliwatting recently. I also go CW >> mobile on 40, 30, and 20 with hamsticks. >> >> In the end, it all comes down to the gods of propagation. But even >> then, I've called CQ on a "dead band" more than once and received a >> surprising reply around 14.060. >> >> Anyway, for what it's worth..... >> >> >> 73, Stan WB2LQF >> KX1 #2411 K1#2994 K2# 6980 K3#5244 K9 #1 (Cocoa the >> Chihuahua) >> Everything is QRP, even the dog. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Sam Morgan wrote: >> >>> All these QRP/QRO contacts stories, >>> are pretty meaningless to me, >>> *UNLESS* >>> they have antenna, band, and qth information included. >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
