[Elecraft] when demonstrations really go well

[Sandy]

Reminds me of the thrill I got working New Zealand on 20 meters with
an old Ten-Tec PM-3A.  It ran about 3 watts out.  Worked them with a simple dipole about 12' high
suspended between the eaves of the house and a clothesline pole!

One evening on the Mississippi river levee, waiting for a ship to arrive, I worked a 
scad of Pacific stations at the tail end of a net on 15 meters. (Kwajalien, Guam, 
E. Carolines, Hawaii and American Samoa), all with a 3 watt PEP TenTec "Argonaut"
and a Hustler mobile whip on my truck on SSB!

Haven't been that excited in years!  Well, no maybe working DX on my K1 and random wire
indoors a year or so ago.  But the best thrill was the first long haul QRP with the ZL!
73,
Sandy W5TVW
K1 #1178
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wayne burdick" <n6kr at elecraft.com>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>; "QRP-L" <qrp-l at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:49 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] when demonstrations really go well


| 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
| 
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