N0MA used my K2/100 for its CW station this year. We used a 130' dipole up about 50', fed with ladder line to a 4:1 balun then to the KAT100. It loaded up just fine on all bands. The guys on the phone station wanted/needed to run their cool Alpha 1500W amplifier (to make up for a lack of operating skill?) so that cut our points in half and caused some interference when we were operating on the same band. They had a 20m fixation so that helped... we were able to work 15, 40, and 80 without interference. On 20m I turned off the AGC and the pre-amp and that seemed to help. I still had trouble hearing weak signals over the hash from the phone station but any moderately strong signal was OK. That made CQing difficult but S&P was a breeze. Once again the 100hz filter made the bands seem nicely organized and quiet. I was doing a little demo for some guests and pointed out how I could work a station, then move 500 hz up and wait and sure enough there'd be somebody there calling CQ. Then I'd switch off the filter and you'd hear the cacophony going on around you. Back to 100 hz and quietly work the station and move on to the next. I expected my K2 to not be bothered at all by the 1500W phone station located about 300' off the end of (and aligned with) my dipole. I was a little disappointed but we got along with it OK. We won't be at the top of the results, what with our points cut in half and all, but we'll get a bonus for our biodiesel generator that provided steady power and the smell of deep-fried chinese food all weekend. :-) Craig NZ0R K2/100 #4941 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
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