[Elecraft] re: ARRL INT. CW

[Terry Bassett]

Hello All,

=09I read the reports of others in the 'test this past weekend.  It got m=
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re-visit the shack computer and have my software give me a report or two.
=09This is with K2 #3123 just recently completed, with audio filter and N=
oise=20
Blanker.  Power was 4.5 watts as per a WM-2.  Antenna was a Gap Titan at=20
eight feet above ground.
=0938 countries, 16 islands, 33 prefixes in 14 zones.  I am not a contest=
er, I=20
just search and pounce.  Highlights were 9G Ghana 9A Croatia HA Hungary a=
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ST Sudan and a real kick was the ITU station at Geneva.
=09My appreciation of the K2 continues to grow.  This is one heck of a CW=
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machine.
=09I do realize that all these were experienced contesters at first rate=20
stations, but still qrp did fine. One station I had trouble with was in=20
Kaleningrad (sp?) in the country formerly known as the USSR.  After sever=
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attempts we mutally gave it up, but he did give it quite a go.

72,

Terry  KA9TXE  in East Central Illinois