Kind of a similar situation here in Folsom. Christmas activities and other family “stuff” kept me away from the contest for all but a few hours. My goal, using the K3 @ 5 watts along with my P3, was to search & pounce for as many different states as possible - I’m trying to get WAS QRP. A total of 66 QSO’s in 34 states, plus 5W1SA (Samoa), EA8AV (Canary Islands), KP2Q (Virgin Islands), and WP4C (Puerto Rico). Heard lots more DX stations but didn’t attempt to work them, as states were my main goal. Although I did hear a station from Algeria (7X7?? - can’t remember the whole call) but he was also search & pounce so I didn’t get a chance to call him - arrghhhhhh. Not too bad for QRP and a stealthy doublet antenna strung through the redwood trees. Darn CC&R/HOA crud!
If I worked you in the contest - many thanks and you’ll probably be getting a QSL and an SASE from me if you don’t participate in LoTW! 73, Jim / W6JHB > On Monday, Dec 15, 2014, at Monday, 7:58 AM, Wayne Burdick > <n...@elecraft.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I only had an hour or so of contest time, but the band was in great shape and > I worked everyone I called in both SSB and CW mode (35 QSOs in 19 states). > > Just to make it more challenging, I kept power set to 5.0 watts, and used my > 6-meter antenna exclusively (not a typo--yes, this was on 10 meters). It's a > pair of 6-meter hamsticks forming a dipole, supported by a push-up mast at > about 20'. It's fed with LMR400 coax, then connected to the K3, which has a > KAT3 ATU. The ATU can tune this antenna on 20-6 meters. While it certainly > isn't very efficient on bands below 6 meters, it was good enough to have some > fun in the contest. > > I was using the latest K3 firmware (rev. 5.01), which has excellent QSK audio > characteristics as reported by those using this field-test release. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to w6...@me.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
