Re: [Elecraft] KX3] WRTC activity from K6KR

2014-07-13 Thread Jim Brown
On 7/13/2014 10:07 AM, Dick Dievendorff wrote: He said there are 3 rules: 1. Run Europe, 2. Run Europe, and 3. Run Europe. And fight like hell against any change in the scoring rules for DX contests that give the east coast a 20:1 advantage in most of them. 73, Jim K9YC

Re: [Elecraft] KX3] WRTC activity from K6KR

2014-07-13 Thread Phil Wheeler
Good deal, Dick. I have the KX3 and that antenna (which I have yet to deploy). Only problem is that operating on the East Coast will spoil you for trying to work Europe with similar equipment from the West Coast. It's about the same as working Mass on 20 m from California! In 1997 I was dri

[Elecraft] KX3] WRTC activity from K6KR

2014-07-13 Thread Dick Dievendorff
I'm in a hotel in Westborough, MA. I brought an EARC Hawaii end fed matchbox with its 30 feet of wire and fed the wire out my first floor hotel window sill edge and spread it out over the bushes in front of the hotel. It was maybe 30" above ground and 30" away from the hotel building proper.