[Elecraft] 160M MOJO

[Richard Lim]

Ok, maybe this is old news for some of you guys, but, I can't believe 
that I'm actually getting out and being heard on 160m!  After I put my 
son to bed this evening, I decided to "play" in the 160m CQ 'Test. I'm 
running here a little guy station here with my K2 5w to an 80ft 
longwire at abt 30ft.  With this setup, I never thought to try to 
operate on 160m because of the antenna. In fact when I threw the wire 
in the tree, I tried tuning up 160m and never got the SWR below 2.5 : 1 
and usually it was 3-4:1. Well, it might just be that the conditions 
are favorable tonite or more likely that  the ELECRAFT MOJO is flowing! 
  I was knocking off the big guys one after another on the first call 
with only one or two repeats needed on my call!  All at 5W to a piece 
of  junk wire antenna! I'm really excited about this and had to share 
it with the group.

Also the K2 has got to be one of the best CW contest machines as VERY 
strong adjacent signals don't swamp the receiver and actually are 
perfectly copiable. I found that with all the filtering options, I was 
able to pick out signals with ease and did not miss the passband tuning 
of my Icom too much. More MOJO!

Ok, thanks for reading guys and now back to the 'test.... Yippee!

Rich
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