Hi all, This year my son and I once again joined the K6SRA effort at Almaden Quicksilver park in San Jose. This is a well-organized, large 3A operation, with lots of radios, big batteries, solar panels, and no shortage of unhealthy snacks.
We had many drop-bys of hams and non-hams. Lots of excellent PR. At one point I had three 9 or 10 year olds kicking the tires on my KX2, seeing their names in CW and arguing over who would get to log the next contact. Oh, and lots of questions, like "what is a radio signal?" Did I mention it was hot? Must have been close to 100 F at midday. After working towards the K6SRA total for awhile, I unplugged the KX2 from the group's Yagi, plugged in a 4'-long 20 meter whip, and headed out for some /PM (pedestrian mobile) operation. I had a gent with me who was very skeptical of what could be done with a hand-held radio, whip, and trailing counterpoise wire. While standing under a tree, we switched to 20 meters and started tuning around. Using the radio like an HT, running 10 watts (internal battery), we worked several stations in SSB, RTTY, and CW modes. Best DX while handheld was Massachusetts and Hawaii. This all happened over the course of about 3 minutes. I did discover a couple of minor firmware bugs, in keeping with long Field Day tradition. 73, Wayne N6KR ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
