Hi I am Tom Meier wife (K7zz). Tom died last Saturday. I would greatly appricate you removing him from your email list.
Thank you Kathy Meier On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Doug Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear OMs and Yls, > > Okay the subject line is rather "hoaky" but I write to tell you that > a wet string sometimes works. Brought up in the sixties on radio, I > remember the bunkum adverts for the Gotham Vertical. Two months ago I > worked a South Carolina station using a KX3 and AlexLoop inside his room > and > this impressed me a good bit. I have a KX3 waiting for me in Connecticut > and was looking for a portable antenna to use with it. I still doubted > the > AlexLoop would be an adequate antenna. > > Tonight using a friend's AlexLoop inside the shack I worked across > the > pond thirteen times between 19:36 and 21:52 using 9 Watts from the K3. > This antenna measuring just under a meter in diameter was sitting on my > easy > chair. I am pretty impressed and you can take it Hugh that I will > purchase > one for my self. This antenna collapses into a case 41 x 27 x 9 cm in > size > and weighs perhaps 1 kg with the case. Surely a long wire out the window > would out perform the AlexLoop (magnetic loop antenna) but it is not always > possible to drop a quarter wave length out the window. I am not saying > these QSOs all came easily but many answered on my first call but of course > it was near the end of the contest and replies were becoming harder to > obtain. I believe the AlexLoop with my KX3 is going to prove fun while > visiting the USA. > > > > States and Provinces worked during WAE: > > VY2ZM NS > > N8BJQ OH > > K1LZ MA > > W2LK NY > > NY4A NC > > AA3B PA > > VE3AT ON > > K1RX NM > > K3WW PA > > KE9KI IN > > W1EQ CT > > NB1N MA > > K3WI MD > > > > All of this was done on 20M CW earlier I was on 17M and worked six EU > stations in a short period of time. I have also managed two QSOs on 30M. > The antenna works. It is not near the equal of a 14AVQ with single ground > rod but my need is to be able to make CW QSOs when away from home. The > power limit for the antennas between ten and twenty watts. I would think > no more that ten watts for data modes and perhaps it is better to stay to > ten watts maximum when on CW. > > Normally from my home QTH in Ireland I run the K3 at 65W to a 4 > element SteppIR up 80 feet. I run 1500W now allowed in EI for contests. > There is no comparison between capabilities. This morning I found nothing > on 20M with the Alex loop and then went down to 30M to search out a couple > of QSOs. It is never the case that 20M is dead with the SteppIR but the > AlexLoop can travel with me on a plane and I can make QSOs and keep my fist > active. QRP is 5W but QRP into a Yagi is not the same as 9W into an indoor > AlexLoop. When one has worked most of the DX entities currently active > this adds a bit of zest. > > > > 73 Doug EI2CN > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
