Hi All, Had to respond to Tom, N0SS's post. We were both licensed in '58 (not 1858!), so our old bodies and minds are at about the same level in decline :) But I too had a great outing and was able to operate the full 24 hours (plus three minutes!) without too much discomfort.
When we worked each other Sunday afternoon, if I remember correctly, Tom was 3 Q's up on me. Seems that nothing much changed after that. It will come down to who made fewer mistakes. Never heard or worked Yukon/NWT/Nunavut or VE4. Been to MB so know it exists. I was recalling how arduous working this contest used to be on the ears and mind a few years back. That was with a Heathkit SB-101, followed by a Kenwood TS-530s. The K2's receiver OTOH is so clean that the CW signals are music to the ears and a joy to behold. As others have pointed out, there are no artifacts, 'thumping', or other extraneous (intraneous?) noise sources to create listener fatigue. I most often used the 750 Hz filter position. My score of 100K with 5W compares closely to what I used to accomplish with 100W in past decades. My compliments to 'The Creators' at Aptos! And ... great to work other Elecrafters too. 72/73 Todd N9NE Default Exchange : # Q N9NE 58 WI Hours of Operation: 24:03 (heh heh) band QSOs points ------------------------- 80 284 568 40 226 452 20 57 114 15 75 150 ------------------------- TOTAL 642 1284 X 78 multipliers = 100,152 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.30/521 - Release Date: 11/7/2006 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com