[Elecraft] when demonstrations really go well

[wayne burdick]

Eric (WA6HHQ) and I did a talk about Elecraft at Stanford University 
recently. Great club, and the talk went fine.

After the talk, we tossed a 30' or so piece of wire through the window 
of the conference room into a tree two floors below. A second wire 
about 10' long was used inside the classroom as a ground. We then tuned 
up the antenna on 40, 30, and 20 meters to roughly 1:1 using the 
internal tuner in a KX1. About 10 seconds after turning power on, I 
heard a YL2 calling CQ on 20 meters. With one of the club members 
listening on one ear bud, and me listening on the other, I called the 
YL2 and got an answer immediately. The 339 signal report did nothing to 
diminish the thrill of having worked such great DX with a completely 
ad-hoc antenna and 2 watts -- on internal batteries.

It doesn't get much better than this!

(Well, OK, we designed the KX1 and could be exaggerating :)

73,
Wayne
N6KR