Great story, Jim. Thanks. 10 m is amazing when it's open. I once worked Italy from Massachusetts mobile, driving up 495, running about 250 mW CW to a mag-mount whip about 3' long. The rig was homebrew, about 4x2x1", powered by a 9 V lithium battery. I would say "doesn't get much better than that," but every year I then get surprised by things that *are* better.
73, Wayne N6KR > On Aug 19, 2020, at 4:14 AM, KK1W <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wayne, > > A small group of SOTA activators were on Burley Hill, W1/MR-002, September > 30th, 2012 using the SOTA Jerks club call NE1SJ. Propagation was better in > 2012 and toward the end of the activation I tuned around the 10 meter band > with my KX3 looking for more contacts. Back then I was probably using a 41' > end fed wire and it wasn't very high. > > I found some strong RTTY signals, apparently a contest but I don't know > which one. Remembering the KX3 could do RTTY with the paddles I quickly > figured out how to make it work (well, maybe not so 'quickly' but it didn't > take too long) and managed to work Marco, IK0YVV. I put another contact in > my SOTA log and Marco logged another contest Q. > > I think there were four of us on this activation (KX1X, N1FJ, K1MAZ and > myself) and I'm sure everyone remembers working Italy on 10m RTTY, QRP that > day. > > Anyway, that was my only SOTA RTTY experience with KX3 #1124. I've made > hundreds of SOTA contacts since but most are CW. > > Still using my KX3, this year not many SOTA activations but it has had a > workout in FD 2019 and 2020, 2A battery, QRP. > > '73... > Jim/KK1W > > > > > >> I've made hundreds of Field Day and contest QSOs using RTTY on Elecraft >> rigs, but I was wondering...has anyone tried RTTY on a SOTA outing? >> > >> 73, >> Wayne >> N6KR >> > > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
