[Elecraft] ARRL DX CW contest

Tue Feb 18 07:33:00 2003

Dave, 
I can say that I share your experience in the contest.
Worked also with K2 at 5 watt and a poor 20m randowm wire.
Could work 130 QSO's, only one W6, the rest mainly east coast and a vew
canadian stations. No 160m, only a few on 80m. 
I could work many of the big guns 4 times on the bands above 40m. 
The K2 performed very well, even if the station could not copy me, I could
copy very well in the pileup's. Most annoying was the clicking from wrong
keying stations. Some times I could hear the clicking over a range of 10khz. :-(
Got some comments, like you, about the 5 watts. 
Conclusion: Next year I need a better antenna! 
Also I found the KAF2 very helpful to pull the signals out of the noise here.
I worked only S&P with 400hz filter setup and AF1 on. 
And I believe I made a small failure with my exchange sending, send only "5" so
sometimes the op ask for "tt5 ?" 
Next time I will do it right ;-)
Many thanks to all OP's which could copy my weak signal.
After working, as my first contest, in the cqww 2002 with my K1, the arrl contest was a good experience with the K2. 

73 de Wolf, DL2WRJ

Dave Sergeant schrieb:
> I also had a bash in the ARRL contest from the DX side
> (so worked 
> loads of you chaps but no new countries..).
> 
> 394 QSOs, claimed score 126,474 operating QRP from my K2
> at 5W and a 
> 60ft longwire. As always the K2 worked impeccably.
> 
> In this contest us QRP operators get a kick in sending
> 005 as the 
> power and awaiting the response (loads of 'fb QRP'
> comments). And an 
> even greater satisfaction after waiting to call while the
> operator 
> struggles to get the details from someone sending 599200
> then getting 
> through the very first call...)
> 
> Conditions seemed a bit down, with no W6 or W7 and only a
> few W0s. 
> Best 'DX' was BC on 20 and OR. A few QSOs on 80, none on
> 160. With 
> 157 QSOs I guess 10m was my best band.
> 
> 73 Dave G3YMC
> K2 #2498
> 
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