[Elecraft] SSB - Fooie!

[bejones@hursley.ibm.com]

> During the California QSO contest I worked 22 states and a few provinces all
> with less than 10w on SSB.  I was trying for all states but I got into the
> game late.  I only missed one try on 40m.a

During WAS over the last couple of years I worked in excess of 30 
states each year (35 in 2001, don't have this year's log here). All 10W 
SSB on a 102' doublet at 30'. 

QRP SSB works very well in contests when the other guy will make the 
effort for the extra point. It is much harder to have casual QSOs 
though, as Larry points out some folks often don't want to be bothered 
with much less than 59 copy.

One of the better QSOs I had was with a VK7GK in Tasmania who 
switched of his linear to join me at 10W and we had a 44 copy QSO for 
about 20 mins before I had to run. Nice to exceed 1000miles/watt with 
a casual chat QSO.

One of these days I use the K2 for CW :-)

Brian G0UKB
K2 #1115