Thanks Eric for adding me. That was a big day for me. The first
QSO since November since I live in a faraday cage and I haven't
wanted to haress the management at my retirement community about
antennas, since they are up to their eyebrows dealing with Covid-19.
I hauled my KX3 out to a picnic table about 200-300 meters from
the nearest building with electricity and QRM, and set it up
with the AX1. I was abou 100 meters from the largest local
river, down in a valley. I had a brand new Bioenno 6AH battery
to power it since I had problems getting more that 3W out with
the internal Enloop batteries.
With this setup, everything worked FB. S0-1 noise and good
reception. It was my first QSO with the AX1, my first time
checking into the Elecraft net from New Hampshire, in spite of
many trials from what should have been a better location -- near
the top of a hill with a 2 element wire beam
The only thing that was about the same as checking in from CA
was NC0JW. He continued to be the best relay for my checkin. He
has really good ears. Thanks again Jim.
73 Bill AE6JV
PS. After the net, I made a 40M FT8 QSO with AA4SS which showed
that the AXE1 extender was doing its job.
On 5/21/20 at 1:56 PM, [email protected] (Eric Lanzl) wrote:
I need to add another station to the log from Sunday's net that
for some reason did not get into my log. AE6JV
Bill NH KX3 6454 15 watts from an Elecraft AX1
portable antenna.
Eric WB9JNZ
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