As good as the Elecraft stuff is the Antenna makes a big difference. I could hear and work guys on the big loop that were below noise on the dipole.
~73 Don KD8NNU On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Bill W4ZV wrote: > Last summer I picked up a mis-assembled KSB2 on the cheap to add to my > 2004 > vintage K2. After fixing a few assembly problems and installing the > updated > crystal set, I checked it out with a few QSOs but had not used it much > on > SSB since then. > Yesterday I decided to pull it out and try a few QSOs on 10m in the > ARRL > contest. Wow what a pleasant experience! The SSB received audio > sounds > absolutely great and my TX audio (Heil HC4 headset) worked well enough > to > get through to most stations in just a few calls. I was amazed to > actually > break a modest pileup on FO5QB! > > After ~1 hour of purely S&P operating, I had 81 QSOs in 24 countries, > including all continents except Asia (not heard due to poor > conditions). Of > course stacked 6el Yagis deserve a little credit! :-) > Thank you Elecraft for a great QRP rig...even on SSB! > > 73, Bill W4ZV > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-QRP-fun-in-ARRL-DX-SSB-tp7342165p7342165.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
