Then there's my experience. I ran the barefoot K2 in one of the big SSB contests this past fall (Nov SS?). I got buried. In the CW contest, I easily worked 50 people. With the same effort in SSB, I worked maybe 15 and several of them were really struggling to copy. That was on 40 meters with a 32' vertical.
I put in the KPA100 and things are easier now. - Keith N1AS - - K2 5411.ssb.100 - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:53 PM To: Fred (FL) Cc: Elecraft Discussion List Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 - How good on SSB? Ran my K2 barefoot on SSB and CW for about a year before getting around to building the KPA100 amplifier, was having too much fun jousting with the big boys over 'Outside of Europe' DX on 40m. K2 earned its keep on SSB and the old story is true, it's the antenna's performance that counts. 73, Geoff GM4ESD Fred N3CSY wrote: > Thinking about building my 2nd K2. First # 54xx, was a very sucessful > build. > > Does anyone have thoughts on how well the K2, operates, by itself, as > a SSB HF rig? It would seem 15W is kind of pushing it for a suitable > signal - but just wondered if any successful > K2 SSB ops are around. > > And I've always had this belief that 15W is not enough to drive many > or any amps? > > Thanks, > Fred, N3CSY _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] 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 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] 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
