Thanks all! My K3/10 is almost always running at 5w CW. I'm really surprised and grateful for the great ears and enormous patience DXers have shown responding to my puny signal.
I did note that the 70ft run to my dipole via RG213 was right on spec when I measured it at 0.5db of loss. But the 20ft of jumpers I had ate another 0.6db. I can eliminate those and will do so now that I'm aware of their penalty. I know it only means a fraction (pick a number...) of an S unit but when the DX on the other side of the world has to ask for a dozen fills I'll be happy to know I've done as much as I can to lessen their pain a bit. ;-) Best so far is an FO in French Polynesia and VQ in Diego Garcia with 5W and a 80ish foot wire dipole at 50ft in Maryland. 73 jim ab3cv ______________________________________________________________ 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
