[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Announcement
Ron D'Eau Claire
rondec at easystreet.com
Sun Jan 16 00:51:57 EST 2005
While I'm usually in my office on Sunday afternoon/evening and miss the
nets, I'd like to point out that cdx are great on 80 for the western US
virtually every day this time of the year. With just a short (45 ft) doublet
fed with open wire line, I consistently work all the states west of the
Rockies with solid signals in the evenings at 100 watts out. And, believe
me, with that <1/4 wave doublet my ERP is way below 100 w!
It doesn't take a special antenna to work 1000 miles or so on 80 with a
K2/100 as regularly as clockwork.
Yeah, we seem to have missed our Christmas snow and had to settle for the
ice storm instead. We're plenty well iced up here in town at 300 feet!
Ron AC7AC
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