CQ WW CW is one of my favorite “sporting events” of the year. This year I tried
something different, operating for about half an hour using the KX2 hand-held,
at 10 W output, with a whip. Band conditions weren’t great, but I made about 20
contacts total using 15 and 20 meters, including quite a
I was thinking of doing it running 5 watts to be in the QRP class, using
my KX2 with the Elecraft version of the W6MMA screwdriver antenna (the
Elecraft grey paint obviously contains some fine mojo). I'm less mobile
than I used to be but I can easily mount it to one of the handles of my
Hi all,
Our local weather looks good for the weekend, so I’m going to ditch the home
station for CQ WW CW this year and do it entirely on the hoof with the KX2 and
a whip. (There probably isn’t a entry class for this. Oh well) I did this
for a short time last year and made several EU
GM,
I brought my KX1 and Buddipole vertical with me while on holiday for
Thanksgiving in Utah with my two girls and seven grand kids.
I worked some stations during the contest, but did manage to get two stations
in Japan on 40/20 meters on the KX1 at 2.5 watts with the Buddipole vertical !
I used the Yamaha CM500 from my colleage VO1AU which was very good. I
cannot get a CM500 in VR2, could any of you advise where I can get a CM500
in USA?
--
Hi Johnny,
I purchased some from here some time back. No problems with credit card or
shipping to
Hi Johnny,
I have had a lot of problems over the years trying to order things from
U.S. based stores using a foreign credit card. Most internet shops there
seem to think we are all some kind of criminal if we live outside of the
United States ;-)
One exception I have found is BH. They have no
http://www.yamahamusicsoft.com/
On 31/10/2011 14:20, Mitch Wolfson DJØQN wrote:
Hi Johnny,
I have had a lot of problems over the years trying to order things from
U.S. based stores using a foreign credit card. Most internet shops there
seem to think we are all some kind of criminal if we
de 2011 03:21 p.m.
Para: Johnny Siu
CC: Elecraft
Asunto: Re: [Elecraft] CQ WW SSB
Hi Johnny,
I have had a lot of problems over the years trying to order things from
U.S. based stores using a foreign credit card. Most internet shops there
seem to think we are all some kind of criminal if we live
Mitch Wolfson DJØQN
Enviado el: Lunes, 31 de Octubre de 2011 03:21 p.m.
Para: Johnny Siu
CC: Elecraft
Asunto: Re: [Elecraft] CQ WW SSB
Hi Johnny,
I have had a lot of problems over the years trying to order things from
U.S. based stores using a foreign credit card. Most internet shops
: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] En nombre de Mitch Wolfson DJØQN
Enviado el: Lunes, 31 de Octubre de 2011 03:21 p.m.
Para: Johnny Siu
CC: Elecraft
Asunto: Re: [Elecraft] CQ WW SSB
Hi Johnny,
I have had a lot of problems over the years trying to order
Hello Elecrafter,
I was QRV to an outline island of Hong Kong (known an Lamma Island).
Therefore, I only brought K3+KPA500+Buddipole+25A switching power supply.
Scores were of course nothing promising because I was lazy and slept a lot.
The buddipole was installed on the roof of 3 storey
Hello Elecrafters,
I will be QRV to an outline island in VR2 for this contest using K3 + KPA500.
See you on the air!
TNX 73,
Johnny VR2XMC
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Help:
Bob, W6TR wrote:
Doug, I was very happy to read you analysis of the K3 radio. I have mine on
order and it should arrive tomorrow barring another snow storm like we had
yesterday. I have be reading most of the posts to the Elecraft reflector
and it is quite intimidating. My plan is to apply
I entered this past contest mainly to test my K3,not wishing to win any
award,just took it easy but I checked at qrz any single station I contacted
with and guess what,about 30% of them were using K3's at the contest.
Friend of mine from Miami,I will not mention his name not to make the other
Hector Padron wrote:
Snip
My K3 behaved better than expected, I had no problem at all pulling out from
a very crowded band and close to the big guns weak stations with signals of
55 to 57,I used all the time my roofer of 2.1
End snip
Like Hector I enjoy contesting. Due to CCR's, I'm limited
What a delight is to work a contest with this K3,I took a brake after almost
continuos 20 hours as single op multiband operation. Radio is just little warm
after keeping it up and running that long..
Selectivity in this radio is what make it shine,there are thousand stations in
all bands from
http://www.eskimo.com/~mwdink/3830/CQWW%20CW%20Soapbox%20Dec%201%202008.txt
Many K2s and K3s noted in these 3830 postings...
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
TnQP http://www.tnqp.org/
Elecraft K2/100 #3311
Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
David Pratt-2 wrote:
In a recent message, G4ILO [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
One problem seems to be that when the RX; command is sent, the TX sends 3
or
4 seconds of idle before going to RX.
Julian -
You need to send di-di-dah-dah at the end of your transmission. It will
then go immediately
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G4ILO
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 2:43 AM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CQ WW WPX RTTY
David Pratt-2 wrote:
In a recent message, G4ILO [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
One problem seems to be that when the RX; command is sent, the TX
Rick Tavan N6XI wrote:
The CQ RTTY contest starts in a couple of hours and runs Sat/Sun GMT. This
is a great opportunity for all those new K3's to strut their digital
stuff.
I won't be hugely active, just exercising the K3 and the rest of the
station
on a mode that is (re-) new to me.
You have to send it just as you would a single letter, no extra spacing.
73
Greg
AB7R
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mark roz
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:44 PM
To: Elecraft
Subject: Fwd: Re: [Elecraft] CQ WW WPX RTTY
did dit dah
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From: Greg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mark roz [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Elecraft
elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 3:53 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [Elecraft] CQ WW WPX RTTY
You have to send it just as you would a single letter, no extra spacing.
73
Greg
AB7R
-Original
The CQ RTTY contest starts in a couple of hours and runs Sat/Sun GMT. This
is a great opportunity for all those new K3's to strut their digital stuff.
I won't be hugely active, just exercising the K3 and the rest of the station
on a mode that is (re-) new to me. Hope to hear lots of you on.
73,
Vic K2VCO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And note that, unlike some other rigs, you can't choose to receive on VFO
B -- you always receive on A and you have a choice to transmit on A or B
(of course, you can copy the frequency from B to A and then receive on it;
but you are still using VFO A to
Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
Perhaps a daft question, but assuming that the DX is working SPLIT, that
I am NOT using RIT nor XIT and that I am listening to the DX with VFO
A. If I now want to listen to the calling stations which would normally
be done VFO B, which also controls my Tx
Item 3) - The VFO B Should have 2 felt washers to adjust drag. See Assembly
Manual any REV. Even if the washers are in place the knob may need to be
adjusted closer to faceplate to increase drag.
Al WA6VNN
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Vic K2VCO wrote:
hank k8dd wrote:
Let's say I am listening to 1830.000 to a DX station. VFO A
The DX station says QSX 1829 so I set VFO B to 1829.00
The RIT is on and is + 1 KHZ - so A reads 1830.100
Now I want to listen to the pile on the TX frequency, so I press REV.
Now my TX freq reads
I just got back from the qth of N8CC. Jeff has a contest grade
station set up. Besides 2 or 3 HF towers, he has both an 80 and a 160
1/4 wave vertical, along with 3 1350' long beverage antennas.
He had a handful of hams over to operate single op/single band in
the contest.
On 20 m,
I just got home from CQ WW CW . a bunch of us got together at a
major station and we each picked a band and used our own calls.
10 M - no operator showed up and I don't think the band did either.
15 M - a brand new Omni VII
20 M - me and my K2/100 w/DSP
40 M - AC8W and my other K2/100
80 M -
still
holding REV. Remember, VFO-A will be your RX freq and VFO-B your TX freq.
73
Greg
AB7R
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of hank k8dd
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 7:39 PM
To: Elecraft
Subject: [Elecraft] CQ WW CW a K3
I just got home
hank k8dd wrote:
Let's say I am listening to 1830.000 to a DX station. VFO A
The DX station says QSX 1829 so I set VFO B to 1829.00
The RIT is on and is + 1 KHZ - so A reads 1830.100
Now I want to listen to the pile on the TX frequency, so I press REV.
Now my TX freq reads 1829.100 and my RX
Hello all,
I posted this a while back, but we are closer to the
contest now and thought I'd ask again.
Would anyone like to play on 5 person teams for the CQ
WW DX CW weekend?
This will not change your ability to use your score
for whatever club you may belong to, but it might be
fun!
Let me
Great fun to work at this moment US on 14 MHz with only 10 W bare K2 SSB
from PA-country ( Netherlands ) with only a 7 mtr vertical wire without
radials ( KAT2 obviously tunes great ).
I wonder how my bare K2 could be heard in US between all those big EU 1KW
S9+20/40 canons but it does work for me
Hello All,
If anyone is interested in playing on an Elecraft
Builder team for CQ WW DX (CW at least, not sure if I
will play on SSB or not), I'd handle the filing
required.
Teams can consist of up to 5 members from anywhere on
the planet, and do not affect your ability to apply
your score to
CallSign Used : N2WN
Band : 80M
Power : LOW
Mode : CW
Default Exchange : 5
Gridsquare : EM86EE
RRL Section : TN (Grainger County)
Club/Team : Tennessee Contest Group
Software: N1MM Logger V5.11.6
BandQSOsPts Cty ZN
You can get complacent with the excellent K2
performance but a good contest weekend reaffirms
just how good it is. I haven't really been chasing Qs
in this one but having fun comparing the K2 with my
other radio, an ICOM 706Mk2G, a nice enough
BC band and SWL radio.
With a really crowded band the
elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 3:59 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] CQ WW
You can get complacent with the excellent K2
performance but a good contest weekend reaffirms
just how good it is. I haven't really been chasing Qs
in this one but having fun comparing the K2 with my
other radio
Douglas Westover wrote:
With a really crowded band the K2 sounds clean
between individual signals and shows no tendency
to overload whereas the 706 (with optional 250Hz
filter) just sounds continuously muddy with a
significantly elevated noise floor. Signals that
are solid copy on the K2 can be
Mojo at work in Georgia!
Rig: K2/100 with KAT100 and N1MM Logger Software
Antennas: 40 meter dipole and 20 meter delta loop - just some wires in the
tree!
Time: About 15 hours
BandQSOsPtsCty ZN
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I was at a cabin at Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland over the past weekend;
no way to get on the Internet until today. I ran my KX1, at first on internal
batteries, then from my car battery. Antenna was a 42-foot wire thrown up in a
pine tree, with a 16-foot counterpoise. Included in 35
Well folks another contest weekend is gone...
The K2 was excellent: Some 600+ QSOs with over 400
multipliers. Not bad for hunt and pounce, may have
been a few more if 80 and 10 had been a bit livelier.
I even managed a few 160M QSOs, with a less than
efficient radiator...
The K2 worked well with
Contest are a great time to build your award totals! This weekend
is the 'Mother' of all DX Contest. The CQWW CW. All 40 zones
will be active and some great DX with great op's and very good
ears...Since Monday with my K1 into a GAP Challenger I have
worked VP9, 3D2, VP2, V73, V31, KP2, CO6, CX4,
Hi Art, Elecrafters,
Conditions are pretty good
and DXCC QRP on a weekend is possible.
This my goal for this CQWW. My K2 and my contest-Logger (TLF by PA0R
using Suse Linux 9.1) are setup and ready for the challenge.
I use a 22m sloper antenne.
CU in CQWW
72 Wolf, DL2WRJ
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