Hello all, I finished my K2 in June, bare K2 with 160m. I have listened around since then but I was never tempted to transmit while I was using my old manual ASTU. I finished making a control box, not necessary but useful, for my new SG-231 automatic tuner. My aerial is half an incomplete horizontal loop, currently an end fed long wire, five hundred feet long in the trees around the house ending in a spool of wire with another five hundred feet ready to complete the loop. I heard Dave, KN4ZQ in Palmyra, VA calling CQ on Top Band at 2150Z and I called him with my K2 managing to send 10 Watts according to my Heathkit HM-2140 power and SWR meter that I built in 1979. The 'counterpoise' for my SG-231 is a wire clipped to the water pipes in my basement. I checked the pipes' electrical continuity back to the earth line of my well pump that is about two hundred feet deep and about eighty feet from my basement shack. I was wondering if that would be a good earth - it seems good enough. Dave and I exchanged 559 reports each way.
Great fun and I hope to finish pages in my log book faster from now on. Ian, G4ICV, AB2GR, K2 #4962, Long Valley, NJ, USA. -- _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
