Same date, same rig, same antenna, same band at ground level on a state park picnic table at 700-feet altitude, 30-feet from parking lot (my idea of hiking) ... California, Texas, New York, and Michigan from central Missouri ‘til band played out.
Ditto on Dan’s comments. 72/73, Kent K9ZTV > On Jun 12, 2019, at 12:57 AM, Dan Presley <n7...@arrl.net> wrote: > > Just wanted to pass along my first impressions of the AX1 on a recent SOTA > activation. I picked up the antenna at the Seapac hamfest in Oregon last > week,and then a group of us hams were headed to a SOTA site this last Sunday > in the Oregon cascade range. We went to Clear Lake Butte not far from Mt Hood > to a fire lookout tower site. A 2 mile hike up a pretty steep road but we > made it. I set up my KX2 and the AX1 on a picnic table and spread out 3 13 > foot radials. It tuned right down to 1:1 > on 20 and in very short order I had 15 contacts from North Carolina to > Texas,Arizona,Colorado,Missouri and some west coast guys. Running 5 W cw,and > then switched to 17 M for a few more coast to coast Q’s. Of course we had a > 4500 foot elevation and practically no noise but still it performed very > well. Of course the tiny size is a plus when you’re backpacking up a steep > grade! Wayne and Eric have another winner on their hands. Thanks guys! > > > Dan Presley 503-701-3871 > danpresley@me. com > n7...@arrl.net > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 k9...@socket.net ______________________________________________________________ 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
