Sean,
Great location especially if you can be operating close the water (sea)
when resonant vertical antennas (I use vertical dipoles on a telescoping
10m fishing pole) should allow you to work the world qrp. I also have a
buddipole and it works fine in vertical configuration especially close
to the water on 10-20m and you can tune it so that you do not need a
tuner at all. The combination is also very portable.
You do NOT need a large amplifier. Yes it can help but you are going to
learn a lot more and have fun experimenting with antennas and using an
amplifier tends to bring other problems with it... interference, if your
development is twitchy about amateur radio you will bring lots of
attention your way if you start to create any interference.
At qrp power levels CW (morse code) will allow contacts over much
further distances than SSB (phone) so spend time and learn/improve your
CW skills apart from anything else most of the DX peditions will be
using CW first before any other modes.
72
Dom
M1KTA
I'll be in C5 (Gambia) 27th Feb to 10th March. Holiday with wife so I
might not be on the air the whole time but if last time was anything to
go by RBN/DX cluster will pick me up after about 5 seconds and should be
an easy qso from Florida.
On 26/02/2014 00:23, Sean Wall wrote:
Hi folks,
I recently got my Technician license and I'm working on my General and Extra.
I'm looking to get my first rig and I'm interested in the KX3. I was
considering pairing it with a Buddipole antenna, as my development doesn't
allow permanent antennas. While I use the KX3 at home, will I get decent range
with the 10 watt output? In other words, would I need the 100 watt amp to make
the kx3 a decent base station? I am also planning on bringing the KX3 with me
when my wife and I drive up north from Florida (where we live). Since I'm new
to amateur radio, I don't yet have a feel for how much power 10 watts is w.r.t.
RF frequencies. I plan on operating mostly 6 and 10 m initially until I
upgrade my license. Thanks for any help you can provide!
-Sean
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