[Elecraft] (no subject)

[Thor, n9ik]

Well Andy, you're the second person (Walt, K8CV was the first) to tell me
that the .1 watt is actually .3 on the K1.  I don't have a meter designed
for QRP, so the needle barely twitches at that low power.  Since the needle
does move up to about halfway between 0&1 watt when I have the radio set to
.5, and seems to show very close to 1, 3 and 5 watts forward power when I
have the radio set to those power levels, I assumed that .1 was .1 watt.  I
guess not.

But, as I said in my reply to Walt, K8CV, who also was correcting me:
==< snip >==
"But you know what?  To me, it's still a lot of fun.  After 11 years as a
ham, I've only just been bitten by the QRP bug; just a couple months ago, I
never thought I'd be working stations halfway across the country with such
little power.  100 mW or 300 mW - heck, even at 5 watts it's still pretty
darned cool to me.  QRP's putting the excitement back into amateur radio for
me, and showing me that I have a heck of a lot more to learn.

By the way, I am planning on getting one of the Oak Hills meter kits pretty
soon.  How accurate are they?  In your opinion are they really worth the
money?  I'd be interested in your opinion."
==< snip >==

I'll be more careful about stating "facts" that I haven't accurately
verified. :-}

- Thor, N9IK


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wallace, Andy [mailto:awallace@mc.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 7:24 AM
> To: 'n9ik@qsl.net'
> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] (no subject)
>
>
> Hi, Thor!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > I just have to gush about K1-4 # 1065.  I have shown it to a
> > few people that
> > all commented on the very professional design, construction and
> > documentation.
>
> I agree totally. My brother and father (both hams) loved it when I
> showed it to them yesterday. While I was there, I used my brother's
> 40m dipole and worked Hungary on 15 (from Massachusetts).
> I love it. Had it three weeks and my first contact was Italy on 30!
>
> > I use the
> > lowest power possible, usually 100mW,
>
> Just curious, how do you do that? I found that even after calibration
> (with a dummy load and an OHR QRP wattmeter) that the lowest I could go,
> even though the display said 100 mW, was more like 300 mW.
>
> In other news, I have a Knightsmite, a club version of the Pixie 2
> transceiver.
> Have you heard of it? Two 2N2222s and an op-amp, basicallly, on 3.686 MHz.
> Full break in CW transceiver running off a 9V battery! I built mine in a
> tiny
> box -- finally got an answer to my CQ a few weeks ago and it was 200 miles
> away, at daybreak, in Maine. What a thrill.
>
> My antenna is just a 30' randomwire!
>
> -Andy