Had an interesting time last night. Called CQ in the QRP fishing grounds (7040) with the K2 set to about 15 watts. Got a weak answer from a station in VA. Gave him a 449 and he gave me 569. Turns out I had caught him on a peak, his signal was really more like 329. I copied name, RST & QTH. He said he was running QRP. I asked him for his rig and power and it went like this. "fb on all keith. Rig here i .... ng ... w ... d ... et antenna. hw cpy?" Every time he sent something that wasn't boiler plate his signal would fade into the noise floor or I'd have some QRM or QRN crashes. It took a few exchanges but turns out he was running 1 watt to a doublet. Suddenly I was the station that was 10 dB louder. I was the QRO station who had a solid signal and needed to send things only one time. When I put the rig on the air at 15 watts I expected to be the weak one. I guess he just felt compelled to bow to the K2 mojo :-) - Keith KD1E - - K2 5411 - _______________________________________________ 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
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