[Elecraft] ARS Sprint

[Steve]

By the time I got home the Sprint was already half over but I decided 
to try my new Tiny Tornado (250 mW transceiver and 9V Battery inside 
Altoids Tin).  Well the Tiny Tornado lacked the mojo of my K1 -- made a 
big fat ZERO QSOs.  The Cleveland 50,000 watt clear channel AM station 
and a French speaking AM BC or SWBC kept blowing in.  I could hear 
several CW stations under the racket on both of the two freqs the rig 
covers (rock bound around 7.040) but it was rough to pull callsigns out 
of the QRM and the ones I did manage never heard my call.  I need to 
work on a high pass filter to block the BC stations.

It would have been nice to make a few contacts as the Tiny-T only 
weighs like 3 oz including 9V battery (The Spartan Sprint has a 
"skinny" entry where your equipment weight acts as a DIVIDER so the 
lighter the better)

Oh well maybe next month :-)

73,

Steve - W8HF


On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 01:22 AM, Doc K0EVZ wrote:

> Gang:
>
> Last evening's ARS Sprint was interesting and a lot of fun.  About an 
> hour
> before the start 20 Metres appeared almost devoid of signals here in 
> ND.  I
> thought, wow, there goes the evening.  But once we began, suddenly 
> there
> were scads of signals until the last 35 minutes.  A quick QSY to 40 
> netted
> another small handful of Q's.