All these QRP/QRO contacts stories,
are pretty meaningless to me,
*UNLESS*
they have antenna, band, and qth information included.
1w/5w/15w from a 3 ele beam @ 70 feet
is a bit of a different story
from a short clandestine wire and an apartment building
or
160m vs 20m
or
DXCC from middle of
Hi Sam,
Agree. They also don't report how the guy they worked had to struggle
to pull them out or what his equipment was.
I did a breakdown of the maximum distance to 100, 200 and 300 DXCC
countries for each country of the world. EU certainly has a big
advantage. Several EU countries have
The largest contributor to DX success has and always will be your ability to
be there and efficiently radiate a signal in the right direction and to
receive signals well. I have always found QRP based on TX power to be
anachronistic. It is the EIRP that matters. Neglecting efficiency for the
Sam, I clearly see your point. Perhaps I can volunteer some specifics
from my own QRP station. I live in a townhouse in NY state opposite a
1500 foot mountain a half mile away and I'm about 200 feet MSL. My
antenna is an East/West 44' nonresonant doublet in my attic which loads
up on 80
How about some QRChat?
John Ragle -- W1ZI
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] DX on 15 watts
Sam, I clearly see your point. Perhaps I can volunteer some specifics
from my own QRP station. I live in a townhouse in NY state opposite a
1500 foot mountain a half mile away and I'm about 200 feet MSL. My
antenna is an East/West 44' nonresonant doublet
On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 09:50 -0400, stan levandowski wrote:
Sam, I clearly see your point.
snip
Oh, all right, another testimonial, sort of.
I run 5w through an attic (two-story house) dipole cut for 20m and fed
with ladder line, at least to the attic floor. Then it goes to coax --
the
I'm just curious, Dave, but, what type of antenna are you using?
Gary, N7HTS
On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:48:07 +0100
Dave Sergeant d...@davesergeant.com wrote:
On 31 Jul 2011 at 22:07, vicki glover wrote:
Until I built my K2 (7186) I had no idea that dx on 15 watts was even
possible. I have
You are trying to make too much sense out of it, Sam!
QRP operation makes no more sense than chasing DX or running up a big score
in a contest. It's just a challenge that some Hams enjoy pursuing.
All Hams have the same struggle over a better antenna or geographic
location, whether they're
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] DX on 15 watts
Sam, I clearly see your point. Perhaps I can volunteer some specifics
from my own QRP station. I live in a townhouse in NY state opposite
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire r...@cobi.biz wrote:
You are trying to make too much sense out of it...
I think Ron sums it up very neatly. If you examine any kind of DXing too
closely it probably doesn't make much sense. Nonetheless, it's fun and can
be
I don't chime in on many of these threads, but this one got me thinking. I was
first licensed as a Novice in 1951. As a General in 1952. I worked mostly 10
meters with a Harvey Wells TBS-50d. That had an 807 in the final, so ran 50
watts on AM. So that's about what a K2 runs on SSB. 12 watts
That sunspot count is 128. Sorry.
From: w7...@msn.com
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] DX on 15 watts
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:41:54 -0700
I don't chime in on many of these threads, but this one got me thinking. I was
first licensed as a Novice in 1951. As a General
Agree. They also don't report how the guy they worked had to struggle
to pull them out or what his equipment was.
Brain, I beleive you're speaking from the wrong orifice:
A DX station working a pile-up isn't trying to pull out the QRPer - he's just
trying to work those he hears. The fact that
Don't we all wish it was 2128! :-)
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org
On 8/1/2011 9:41 AM, Kurt Cramer wrote:
Sunspot count is 2128 today. There's hope yet. 73, Kurt, W7QHD
The first QRP club I belonged to in the 1950's (I don't know if it was
launched by K6JSS) suggested defining 50 watts d-c input as QRP. It's no
coincidence that was about the normal power of most CW/Phone rigs running a
6146 or 807 in the final - both extremely popular in homebrew and commercial
Performance is all about SNR and your patience quotient.
I have checked into the Elecrafter 20m SSB Net many times now running
my K3/10 with about 16w output. I never calibrated the transmitter
output and that was what its max output is on 20m. It drops to 8w on 10m 6m.
I'm sure others were
Until I built my K2 (7186) I had no idea that dx on 15 watts was even possible.
I have been running QRO for a couple of years and making the contacts, but
getting alot of these same contacts (Sweeden, Hungary, Lithuania) on 15 watts
with a radio I built is hard to top. Only been running this
On 31 Jul 2011 at 22:07, vicki glover wrote:
Until I built my K2 (7186) I had no idea that dx on 15 watts was even
possible. I have been running QRO for a couple of years and making the
contacts, but getting alot of these same contacts (Sweeden, Hungary,
Lithuania) on 15 watts with a radio I
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