Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
Got my second band tonight on 40 mtrs QRP with my KX3. My first DX QRP contact. That was fun! Stan AE7UT -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Swains-Island-tp7562384p7562522.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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
Good job Stan!! 73, Fred/N0AZZ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Stan AE7UT Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:38 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island Got my second band tonight on 40 mtrs QRP with my KX3. My first DX QRP contact. That was fun! Stan AE7UT -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Swains-Island-tp7562384p7562522.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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
On 9/11/2012 11:37 PM, Stan AE7UT wrote: Got my second band tonight on 40 mtrs QRP with my KX3. My first DX QRP contact. That was fun! Congratulations! I'm trying for all bands QRP. So far, I've worked them with my K3 set for 5 watts on 10 CW, 15 SSB, 17 CW and SSB, 20 CW, 40 SSB, and 160 CW. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.comwrote: I'm trying for all bands QRP.. Good for those who are working them QRP. DX success is not a matter of simply adding more power. As many Elecrafters are well aware, a little operating skill can substitute for a lot of watts. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
WOW!!! Good show! Skill not power. Jim, W4ATK On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com wrote: On 9/11/2012 11:37 PM, Stan AE7UT wrote: Got my second band tonight on 40 mtrs QRP with my KX3. My first DX QRP contact. That was fun! Congratulations! I'm trying for all bands QRP. So far, I've worked them with my K3 set for 5 watts on 10 CW, 15 SSB, 17 CW and SSB, 20 CW, 40 SSB, and 160 CW. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
West coast advantage! 73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, at www.conteststations.com The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com, spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 and arcluster.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 On 9/12/2012 3:11 PM, W4ATK wrote: WOW!!! Good show! Skill not power. Jim, W4ATK On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com wrote: On 9/11/2012 11:37 PM, Stan AE7UT wrote: Got my second band tonight on 40 mtrs QRP with my KX3. My first DX QRP contact. That was fun! Congratulations! I'm trying for all bands QRP. So far, I've worked them with my K3 set for 5 watts on 10 CW, 15 SSB, 17 CW and SSB, 20 CW, 40 SSB, and 160 CW. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
On 9/12/2012 12:33 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote: West coast advantage! On THIS one, yes -- only 4600 miles for me, all the hops over water. We west coasters think the same thing when we hear you east coast guys talking about how easy it is to work DXCC in a weekend QRP -- less than 4,000 miles over water to all those countries in EU and AF. For us, EU is 5,000 - 6,000 miles, AND OVER THE POLE for us. All those countries you pick up in the Caribbean as a short single hop are two hops for us. Heck -- I can't even work 100 countries in a contest weekend with 1.5kW and a pretty good antenna farm! I think I might have done it once or twice in the six years I've lived here. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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] Swains Island
I just worked NH8S on 12 meters using my K2 running 5 Watts into a 135 foot OCF dipole. This makes QRP country number 159 in a little over a year using my K2. Needless to say I am extremely pleased with my K2. I am located in Eastern NY State. Tony Castellano W1ZMB tcaste...@optonline.net Hopewell Junction, NY RV-6 N401TC __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
You got that right! 73, Fred/N0AZZ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Pete Smith N4ZR Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:33 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island West coast advantage! 73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database, at www.conteststations.com The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com, spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 and arcluster.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 On 9/12/2012 3:11 PM, W4ATK wrote: WOW!!! Good show! Skill not power. Jim, W4ATK On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.com wrote: On 9/11/2012 11:37 PM, Stan AE7UT wrote: Got my second band tonight on 40 mtrs QRP with my KX3. My first DX QRP contact. That was fun! Congratulations! I'm trying for all bands QRP. So far, I've worked them with my K3 set for 5 watts on 10 CW, 15 SSB, 17 CW and SSB, 20 CW, 40 SSB, and 160 CW. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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 __ 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 - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2221 / Virus Database: 2437/5264 - Release Date: 09/12/12 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
Location helps! de ns9i On 9/12/2012 1:33 PM, Tony Estep wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jim Brown j...@audiosystemsgroup.comwrote: I'm trying for all bands QRP.. Good for those who are working them QRP. DX success is not a matter of simply adding more power. As many Elecrafters are well aware, a little operating skill can substitute for a lot of watts. Tony KT0NY __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
I just got back from the West Valley Amateur Radio Association (using K5EI) field day wrap up meeting. This year they were working as 10A battery QRP with an all Elecraft HF lineup (K2s and K3s). In the past there was significant interference between digital, SSB, and CW on the same band. This year they reported zero interference problems which they attribute to: Elecraft equipment. Careful placement of antennas. QRP keeps the power down at the local receivers. Cheers - Bill, AE6JV On 9/11/12 at 11:25, ho13d...@gmail.com (dave) wrote: Interesting that Icom phase noise would be mentioned . . . a few years ago at FD one of the guys brought his then-new IC7000 to use as the CW station. We had the antennas arranged such that the two stations (we were 2A) could be on one band with no issues. So long as both the phone and CW were on 20 all was OK. But when the IC7000 went to 15 it produced nasty phase noise in the phone station, which had stayed on 20. --- Bill Frantz|We used to quip that password is the most common 408-356-8506 | password. Now it's 'password1.' Who said users haven't www.pwpconsult.com | learned anything about security? -- Bruce Schneier __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
Bob K6UJ wrote I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image. :-) From the scrolling banner on the NH8S website homepage: .significant phase noise has limited 15M operation but problem being addressed. Hmmmimproving their image? 73, Bill -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Swains-Island-tp7562384p7562473.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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
Interesting that Icom phase noise would be mentioned . . . a few years ago at FD one of the guys brought his then-new IC7000 to use as the CW station. We had the antennas arranged such that the two stations (we were 2A) could be on one band with no issues. So long as both the phone and CW were on 20 all was OK. But when the IC7000 went to 15 it produced nasty phase noise in the phone station, which had stayed on 20. Maybe this is a long time Icom issue? And also something the ARRL does not test. The phase noise test goes out only 1 MHz. Maybe a quick check on other bands is needed? Anyone noticed anything like this with K2, K3, etc? 73 de dave ab9ca/4 On 9/11/12 7:27 AM, Bill W4ZV wrote: Bob K6UJ wrote I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image. :-) From the scrolling banner on the NH8S website homepage: .significant phase noise has limited 15M operation but problem being addressed. Hmmmimproving their image? 73, Bill -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Swains-Island-tp7562384p7562473.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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
I haven't heard the phase noise, with a pair of K2s, and various K1s, KX1s, and K2s in the shack, and on the antennas here. Different bands than that of the monitoring receiver. --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy Anyone noticed anything like this with K2, K3, etc? 73 de dave ab9ca/4 On 9/11/12 7:27 AM, Bill W4ZV wrote: Bob K6UJ wrote I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image. :-) From the scrolling banner on the NH8S website homepage: .significant phase noise has limited 15M operation but problem being addressed. Hmmmimproving their image? 73, Bill -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Swains-Island-tp7562384p7562473.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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
I regularly use my K3 around other radios in the same vicinity (field day; mini-local IOTAs and DXpeditions, etc). Phase noise is a one-way problem: the other guys' radios put me out of business but they do not know I'm around. Even my buddy 1/4 mile away with a non-K3 can be detected here from his phase noise. Someone posted here within the last year and talked about running two K3s simultaneously on the same band SSB and CW with no difficulty. 73, Gary VE1RGB -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of dave Sent: September 11, 2012 3:25 PM To: Bill W4ZV Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island Anyone noticed anything like this with K2, K3, etc? __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
Hi all, they are very lonely on 28.003.2 working about 1 up! 73, Scott From: Tony Estep estept...@gmail.com To: Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:33 AM Subject: [Elecraft] Swains Island The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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
[Elecraft] Swains Island
The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
*Tony, I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask the station ending in Tango your call? and they do this with almost every call and most of the time on all bands. Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls and I am not that far away from them by distance. You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using K3's :-) * On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep estept...@gmail.com wrote: The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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 -- *Gary* *Start the day off slow, then taper off.* K3 #679 KPA500FT #18 KAT500FT 007 P3 #1629 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Gary Gregory garyvk...@gmail.com wrote: *You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using K3's* -- Hmmm. I wouldn't doubt it. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image. :-) Bob K6UJ On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: *Tony, I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask the station ending in Tango your call? and they do this with almost every call and most of the time on all bands. Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls and I am not that far away from them by distance. You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using K3's :-) * On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep estept...@gmail.com wrote: The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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 -- *Gary* *Start the day off slow, then taper off.* K3 #679 KPA500FT #18 KAT500FT 007 P3 #1629 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
*(TIC)well all I can say is that is not working...:-) I was very surprised to hear very good operators NOT being able to distinguish call signs over and over again. I thought it was me so I went up to listen in the pileup from JA and granted they are sometimes S9+20 with the 'weaker' ones @ S9 BUT I am able to hear several call signs clearly and I wrote them down as I listened. I mentioned this to another K3 owner with 59 years experience (I'm a relative newbie at this) and he cam back after several minutes and made the same comment. Whilst I don't want to come across as too biased, I was just making an observation based on my perception. I will say that here their audio is excellent and the operators are extremely patient and polite. So Kudo's to all the operators I have heard so far. I do find it interesting when I think back to some recent Dxpeditions and the way the operators could grab full call signs and were logging stations quickly. From memory most of these were using K3's and the pileups were pretty chaotic as usual. Worked them on 80/20/15 and 10M but the WARC bands are proving problematical for me with just a dipole to work with against the pileup..:-( 73 * On 11 September 2012 07:29, Bob K6UJ k...@pacbell.net wrote: I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image. :-) Bob K6UJ On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: *Tony, I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask the station ending in Tango your call? and they do this with almost every call and most of the time on all bands. Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls and I am not that far away from them by distance. You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using K3's :-) * On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep estept...@gmail.com wrote: The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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 -- *Gary* *Start the day off slow, then taper off.* K3 #679 KPA500FT #18 KAT500FT 007 P3 #1629 __ 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 -- *Gary* *Start the day off slow, then taper off.* K3 #679 KPA500FT #18 KAT500FT 007 P3 #1629 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
Atmospherics can play a big part in intelligibility that no rx can resolve. On T32C I had what I think would be called whispering galleries: the signal circled the world a few times filling in gaps with each pass, so all I heard was a continuous tone. This went on for almost all of a 4 hour shift as the caller tried to get in. Near the end of my shift it started to break up and I could hear all the elements of his call and worked him immediately. He was a good signal. I'm not saying that was the cause here, but I did learn a lesson. David G3UNA - Original Message - From: Gary Gregory garyvk...@gmail.com To: Bob K6UJ k...@pacbell.net Cc: Elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island *(TIC)well all I can say is that is not working...:-) I was very surprised to hear very good operators NOT being able to distinguish call signs over and over again. I thought it was me so I went up to listen in the pileup from JA and granted they are sometimes S9+20 with the 'weaker' ones @ S9 BUT I am able to hear several call signs clearly and I wrote them down as I listened. I mentioned this to another K3 owner with 59 years experience (I'm a relative newbie at this) and he cam back after several minutes and made the same comment. Whilst I don't want to come across as too biased, I was just making an observation based on my perception. I will say that here their audio is excellent and the operators are extremely patient and polite. So Kudo's to all the operators I have heard so far. I do find it interesting when I think back to some recent Dxpeditions and the way the operators could grab full call signs and were logging stations quickly. From memory most of these were using K3's and the pileups were pretty chaotic as usual. Worked them on 80/20/15 and 10M but the WARC bands are proving problematical for me with just a dipole to work with against the pileup..:-( 73 * On 11 September 2012 07:29, Bob K6UJ k...@pacbell.net wrote: I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image. :-) Bob K6UJ On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: *Tony, I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask the station ending in Tango your call? and they do this with almost every call and most of the time on all bands. Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls and I am not that far away from them by distance. You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using K3's :-) * On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep estept...@gmail.com wrote: The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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 -- *Gary* *Start the day off slow, then taper off.* K3 #679 KPA500FT #18 KAT500FT 007 P3 #1629 __ 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 -- *Gary* *Start the day off slow, then taper off.* K3 #679 KPA500FT #18 KAT500FT 007 P3 #1629 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
Unfortunately, comments of that nature do not improve the Icom image over the K3. It may be that Icom is providing the transceivers for the DXPedition, but tha says nothing about the performance of the transceivers The K3 continues to reign high on the list of transceivers fit and eligible for DXpedition use. . 73, Don W3FPR On 9/10/2012 5:29 PM, Bob K6UJ wrote: I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image. :-) Bob K6UJ On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: *Tony, I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask the station ending in Tango your call? and they do this with almost every call and most of the time on all bands. Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls and I am not that far away from them by distance. You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using K3's :-) * On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep estept...@gmail.com wrote: The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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 -- *Gary* *Start the day off slow, then taper off.* K3 #679 KPA500FT #18 KAT500FT 007 P3 #1629 __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Swains Island
Gary, The operator himself is a large part of the equation I believe, but then again they have very good operators... We have 9 days to go and they way they are knocking out the Q's you will undoubtedly do well in a few more days on the WARC bands. They will be calling CQ and falling asleep at the mike hihi 73, Bob K6UJ On Sep 10, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: (TIC)well all I can say is that is not working...:-) I was very surprised to hear very good operators NOT being able to distinguish call signs over and over again. I thought it was me so I went up to listen in the pileup from JA and granted they are sometimes S9+20 with the 'weaker' ones @ S9 BUT I am able to hear several call signs clearly and I wrote them down as I listened. I mentioned this to another K3 owner with 59 years experience (I'm a relative newbie at this) and he cam back after several minutes and made the same comment. Whilst I don't want to come across as too biased, I was just making an observation based on my perception. I will say that here their audio is excellent and the operators are extremely patient and polite. So Kudo's to all the operators I have heard so far. I do find it interesting when I think back to some recent Dxpeditions and the way the operators could grab full call signs and were logging stations quickly. From memory most of these were using K3's and the pileups were pretty chaotic as usual. Worked them on 80/20/15 and 10M but the WARC bands are proving problematical for me with just a dipole to work with against the pileup..:-( 73 On 11 September 2012 07:29, Bob K6UJ k...@pacbell.net wrote: I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image. :-) Bob K6UJ On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: *Tony, I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask the station ending in Tango your call? and they do this with almost every call and most of the time on all bands. Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls and I am not that far away from them by distance. You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using K3's :-) * On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep estept...@gmail.com wrote: The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft, has been going strong for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps, although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 __ 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 -- *Gary* *Start the day off slow, then taper off.* K3 #679 KPA500FT #18 KAT500FT 007 P3 #1629 __ 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 -- Gary Start the day off slow, then taper off. K3 #679 KPA500FT #18 KAT500FT 007 P3 #1629 __ 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
