[Elecraft] EQP G3YMC

Dave Sergeant [email protected]
Mon Mar 10 03:33:04 2003


As previously mentioned I spent most of the weekend in the RSGB 
Commonwealth contest (BERU) and hence had only about a couple of 
hours in EQP. Managed 12 QSOs (10 different K1/K2) and activity was 
fairly low here in Europe. All these were on CW with 5W from my K2. 
Managed a scratchy QSO with Earl K6SE on 15m (called with no joy on 
20m...). VE1RGB and W0SOC were my only other transatlantic QSOs, all 
the rest being Europe. Log already submitted (didn't take me long 
even without the software...)

As somebody who chases QRP countries it would have been nice to have 
heard K2/100 to distinguish the high power ones (OK, I guessed that 
Earl was QRO..).

N0RC wrote:
>HIGHEST K2 S/N WORKED:  4438 (probably wrong but that's what I wrote 
>done)

That would have been W0SOC (K2 438) .......

In the Commonwealth contest I had lots of fun. Conditions were good, 
and I worked quite a few VKs on 40, 20 and 15 and one ZL. Together 
with several other nice ones (9J2, 9V1, 9M2) my all time K2 QRP total 
is now at 173 and my 2003 total at 101. With conditions like this EQP 
had to take second place!!

73 Dave G3YMC

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