[Elecraft] Finally managed QNI on ECN on 40m

[Tom Hammond]

Hi Rich:

>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.

Signals here were often pretty marginal... not only due to QSB but also due 
to some pretty severe QRN... nasty stuff... I apologize to ANYONE I might 
have missed... at times I could hear a signal I though might have been 
calling, but could never pull any intelligence out of the noise, and when 
I'd ask for a possible relay, I'd generally just hear more noise... sorry.

>Tom, what type of antenna are you running?  You were very loud.

Running a K2/100 at about 90W output into an inverted vee with the apex at 
72', running N-S, so you were generally off the ends of the antenna.

>I wonder if 40m was going long early, hence my weak signal.

Undoubtedly... happens just about every year this time <G>.

73,

Tom