Fw: [Elecraft] Alignment question

Sun Jul 13 15:01:01 2003

I actually wanted to post this.

Bill
NA7Y

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William M. Spaulding, Sr." <[email protected]>
To: "gwlillie" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Alignment question

> Hi, George,
>
> There's an old adage from the cobwebs of Ham Radio, "If you can't hear
'em,
> you can't work 'em."  I think my emphasis ever since has been on receiver
> performance.  I have a lot of verified long-distance, small signal DX.
I've
> never run more than 150 Watts in my life.
>
> Remember, the path is reciprocal.  No matter what the antenna gain or
power
> at either end, if you can hear each other, you can work each other.  It's
> always neat to QSO a guy with stacked momobanders at 200 feet.  That's not
> an option for me!  The entire effort for effective QRP especially is great
> receivers and the best antenna you can come up with.  Another 10 dB of
> transmit power isn't exactly an option.  Receiver noise figure
improvements
> and antennas that actually are a conjugate match and radiate power are
> things we all can work on.  It's all a case of finesse, not, "Get a bigger
> hammer!"  The winners are those who are smart in a lot of cases in life -
if
> not all.
>
> In situations where you can hear them, but they can't hear you, the QSO
> failed because of the other guy's receiver or antenna, assuming you aren't
> feeding your dummy load.  I've done that.  Switches are so confusing!
>
> Just one old Ham's opinion.............
>
> Bill
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "gwlillie" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 6:12 AM
> Subject: [Elecraft] Alignment question
>
>
> Here is a dumb question. Is it best to align the rec. for max signal or
max
> power?  With the band pass filters the book says it will be the same. I
just
> wonder if there is a happy medium.
>
>
> George  N8GW
>
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