Re: [Elecraft] milliwatt fun

2005-10-11 Thread Leigh L Klotz, Jr.
Not exactly milliwatts, but close: Yesterday at lunch, I sat on a patio at work in a valley surrounded by hills 100ft higher and a metal frame building, and tied a 24ft wire from my KX1 to a treetop about straight even with me. I tuned about and all I could hear was the building badge reader

[Elecraft] milliwatt fun

2005-10-10 Thread mc
here is the link I found; http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/qrpwhtwy.html http://www.madisoncounty.net/~kj5tf/howto.html Mike MC -- KB7DPC ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list.

Re: [Elecraft] milliwatt fun

2005-10-10 Thread Larry Makoski W2LJ
mc wrote: here is the link I found; http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/qrpwhtwy.html Wow! I gave the ARRL article a quick read through. While there was some valuable information in the article, there sure also was a lot of the old wive's tale in it As far as removing calling CQ from your

Re: [Elecraft] milliwatt fun

2005-10-10 Thread Kevin Rock
I worked an op the other day who gave me a 579 during the first go around. I talked about the mountain, my name, the weather. He came back with rig and antenna information. So I replied with rig here KX1 and a bit more about life in general. His next question was how much power was I