[Elecraft] Finally managed QNI on ECN on 40m

[Richard Thorne]

Maggie:

I heard you just fine here in Amarillo this evening.  This was the first 
time I checked in also.  I just finished a home brew 1/4 10m vertical 
this afternoon. The tuner in my 1000mp(running about 10 watts out) tuned 
it just fine on 40m.  Tom was S9+10 but he said I had some QSB on my 
signal.

Tom, what type of antenna are you running?  You were very loud.  I 
wonder if 40m was going long early, hence my weak signal.

73,

Rich - N5ZC

Working on the home antenna farm in anticipation of building a K2 this 
fall.  I normally run a TS-480 via remote control.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Margaret Leber" <maggie at voicenet.com>
To: "Elecraft" <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 9:57 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Finally managed QNI on ECN on 40m


> ...although I really had oodles of artificial help on a very noisy 
> night. Ended up using my FT-847 at 50 watts CW (a real light-dimmer 
> around here) and KAMPlus on RX to decode the other traffic I could 
> hear--because my CW RX skills just really aren't net quality as yet.
>
> Apparently I send OK because Tom N0SS checked me in (after I remebered 
> to retune my recently repaired G5RV antenna system from 75m to 40m 
> :-) ) with me sending using one side of my Bencher paddle as a 
> straight key...the keyer still tends to run away on me a bit when my 
> attention wanders momentarily.
>
> (I *am* practicing my CW RX and I don't use the KAM for CW RX--except 
> here where I think my inability to copy faster would interfere with 
> net operations.)
>
> So it was nice to finally manage to be heard on ECN, even if it wasn't 
> with the K2. Earlier today with the K2, I had a long phone QSO with a 
> local ham after signing into our local club's 75m phone net (3.993 MHz 
> @ 10:20am et Sundays)  and he was quite impressed with the K2 
> (although apparently at max power he could hear some key chirp when I 
> tested my CW signal). On the club's  "Ten-on-ten" net (28.383 MHz 
> 10:00am et Sundays) I could barely copy signals that the FT-847 heard 
> easily, so obviously I still have some work to do on the 10m or 
> 10m-12m sections of the radio; on 20m and lower this K2 clearly way 
> outperforms the FT-847 on RX using the same antenna system.
>
>  73 de Maggie K3XS
>
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