Good point Rick. I worked them on 20m at about 1400 UTC with my K2 at 80w into an OCF Dipole. He asked for my call about 8 times, but we finally connected.
73 Steve, W1SFR On Mar 7, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Rick McClelland, AA5S wrote: > Something that should be heartening for the less well-heeled amongst us (it > certainly was to me), I was able to work TX5K on five bands with a Flex > 1500, a very inexpensive second-hand RM Italy HLA-150v amplifier and a > single wire antenna. The beams and K3/KPA500 combos are nice to have for > these types of events but aren't absolutely necessary. Of course, one > might suggest that all this success would have been quite impossible had I > not employed an Elecraft KAT500 tuner to make things right with my signal > :-) > > Still chasing Jim, K9YC, for those little green boxes, though. Apparently, > he doesn't sleep much. > > -- > Rick McClelland, AA5S > Fort Collins, CO > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
