Tony, congratulations on your consistent success with QRP operations. One thing you did not mention is the infinite patience and self control you apply to your QRP operations. You realize the signals *are there* and you stalk the bands and wait out the gods of propagation, when the less hardy ops might abandon the shack for the family room, a bag of chips and a cold brew......which is exactly where I'm headed right now.
(P.S. to the Elecraft family -- the 4.7 watts is because this guy has an incredible hangup with not violating the "5 watt" limit for true QRP ops. He keeps it well below to account for measurement error. When he says he's QRP.....he really means it!). 73, Stan WB2LQF www.wb2lqf.com K1#2994 K2# 6980 K3#5244 KX1 #2411 KX3#0325 K9#1 (Cocoa the Chihuahua) On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Tony Castellano wrote: > I just worked V73NS, Marshall Islands, on 15 meters using my K2 > running 4.7 Watts to a OCF dipole. My QTH is in ENY, near > Poughkeepsie, NY. There were quite a few stations on the frequency, > but the K2 got through. > This makes CW QRP country number 160 with my K2 since I first joined > the Elecraft family one year and 3 months ago. > My best DX was Hawaii running 100 mW to the OCF dipole for 50,000 > miles per Watt. > My country number 159 was Swains Island on 12 meters. > A good friend who owns a KX1, K1, K2, K3 and KX3 got me interested in > Elecraft. Since I built my K2, I built a K1 and another > K2 for my wife W1ALI. > I also own a KX3 which is a great rig, but I still like to operate the > K2. I might add that I don't own a mike and work only CW. > So don't count out the K2. > > Thank you Elecraft for great products. > > 73 > > Tony Castellano W1ZMB > [email protected] > Hopewell Junction, NY > RV-6 > N401TC > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
