Hi Julius What is your decent antenna, may I ask? Do you use rx antennas too?
David G3UNA ---- Julius Fazekas n2wn <phriend...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Propagation was pretty darn good too... > > worked a Mn station running 5 watts who was 30 over in Tn. > > Folks were telling me I was pegging the needle running 100 watts. Really > wasn't expecting those lind of comments, nor the DX worked either. > > QRP is surprisingly effective on 160 with a decent antenna, and sometimes > without... > > 72, > Julius > n2wn > > Gary Smith wrote: > > > > Lyle & Dave, > > > > Thank you so much for your explanations. > > > > I realize all the efforts I have put in towards my 150 meter radial > > field had to work in my favor. I am on the ocean and my back yard is > > a salt water marsh. I use the first tall tree at the marsh's edge as > > the support for my 160 meter inverted-L. It is electrically long and > > I use doorknobs at the feed point to give me a 1:1 match at 1.830. > > > > I have 60 some 130' radials laid out with 1/2 of them on the marsh > > and the rest on the bog beside it. I have the same kind of L attached > > to the radial plate for 80M and in the center of the plate is > > attached a butternut HF9V. The get selected via an Ameritron remote > > coax switch. FWIW, I do extremely well on low bands with this for I'm > > forever hearing in contests how powerful my signal is yet I always > > adhere to less than 1500W out. CW I set at around 1,100 watts out in > > a contest just so I know my score is guaranteed to be legit. > > > > Several days ago I worked at the K3 stated 100mw level and was amazed > > by how many replies I was able to get on 160M & 80M. I had started > > out at 5W and gotten several replies and then when I received a 579 > > from Wisconsin on 160, I dropped to the lowest the scale offered at > > 100mw and he gave me a 459. I called more CQs at 100mw and worked a > > NC, IA and MI back to back, to back. I wanted to go lower and try > > 10mw, even 1mw if possible but was not sure how to do this without > > possibly transmitting into the wrong output. > > > > I am on the road at the moment but will try your suggestions when I > > get back. > > > > Amazing what an advantageous antenna system will do. I entered the > > SSB contest for two hours last night just to give people some > > contacts/multipliers. The C6 I worked said he'd heard me earlier and > > took the time to tell me several sentences worth how powerful my > > signal was. The same for several VE stations and one from WV. I know > > the antenna is big in those reports but I also wonder how much using > > the K3 with it's compression played a part as well? > > > > Gary > > KA1J > > > >> > If I want to operate at say, 1 watt I believe all I have to do is > >> > adjust the power out and it will go from 100mw to 120W using the main > >> > antenna 1 or 2. > >> > >> Yes. > >> > >> > If that is true, how does one select and use less that that? > >> > >> Set up the transverter band per page 39 in the manual (latest rev D-2). > >> > >> Use the XVTR OUT connector for the Tx output. > >> > >> Be sure to run the transmit calibrations routine from the K3 Utility for > >> the milliwatt output. See the help in K3 Utility for details. > >> > >> If you want to force the radio to use milliwatt level output on the KXV3 > >> without first setting up a transverter band, then set CONFIG:KXV3 TEST. > >> See page 49. > >> 73, > >> > >> Lyle KK7P > >> > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > > > > ----- > Julius Fazekas > N2WN > > Tennessee Contest Group > http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html > > Tennessee QSO Party > http://www.tnqp.org/ > > Elecraft K2/100 #4455 > Elecraft K3/100 #366 > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/K3-QRPp-tp2399720p2409611.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
