Good job, Tom. I managed to work them on 30m and 40m cw last night with my 5w K2 and wire antenas. Now the only bands I lack QSOs on are 10m and 6m. Since I don't work 6m, I'm not sweating that one :-) 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Hammond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:14 AM Subject: [Elecraft] VP6DX on 160M... MAN, talk about EARS! > Wheeee! > > Just worked VP6DX on 160M... feeding ONLY the CENTER conductor of my 80/40/30M > dipole with about 120' of coax laying on the ground (170' total coax length) > and an estimated 20:1 SWR into the K3s ATU... which the KAT3 matched to <2:1 > without complaint! > > NOT ONLY THAT... as I was checking the 'metering' of the above listed > parameters, > I happened to check my POWER setting... 8.2W output... seems I'd set the POWER > down in an effort to get an external ATU to give me a better 'starting' match > for the KAT3, but finding that the external ATU couldn't hit 160M I took it out > of the line BUT forgot to return the POWER to 100W as intended...!! > > So not only did I work 'em with a MUCH less than optimum antenna (probably only > a few PERCENT efficient), I further hobbled myself 9and them!) by > running (nearly) > QRP. > > AND they still heard me! > > 73, > > Tom N0SS > > _______________________________________________ > 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
