[Elecraft] Finally managed QNI on ECN on 40m

[Richard Thorne]

I meant 10 mhz (30m) 1/4 vertical.

Rich - N5ZC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Thorne" <rmthorne at cox.net>
To: "Margaret Leber" <maggie at voicenet.com>; "Elecraft" 
<Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Finally managed QNI on ECN on 40m


> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> -----/___.   _)Margaret Stephanie Leber CCP, SCJP/"The art of 
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