Wayne,
Nice going! What were you using for an antenna?
73,
Barry
K3NDM
On September 20, 2018 11:07:01 PM EDT, Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote:
>Tonight I heard a very weak CW CQ on 7.007 MHz right around sundown --
>LA1MFA (Norway). With the filtering on the K3S dialed down to 100 Hz,
>30 Hz audio peaking filter (APF) turned on, and the noise blanker
>optimized, he was readable. I called and he came right back to me.
>
>I would normally have tried this at 10 watts first, but something about
>the tenuous nature of conditions these days had me cranking the power
>up to 100 W from the get-go.
>
>Despite requiring "full" power to make this contact, it was a reminder
>that DX is out there if you tune slowly....
>
>On a related topic, I discovered that as a guy of a certain age, 400 Hz
>may be a better pitch for copying weak signals than my usual 550 Hz.
>This could be a well-understood psychoacoustic phenomenon, but it came
>as a pleasant surprise.
>
>73,
>Wayne
>N6KR
>
>
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