[Elecraft] when demonstrations really go well

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

You wrote on May 17, 2005 10:49 PM

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

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You are forgiven if you were!!  There is a Continental station some 1000
miles from here that I chat with from time to time on 40m CW, who runs 100
milliwatts into a dipole. I believe that his Tx is built around a 7400 Quad
NAND Gate or something of that ilk. I left an invitation for him to break in
if he heard me ragchewing with a DX station, and he would like a report.
This he did one morning near the bottom end of 40m (a year or more ago)
while I was ragchewing via long path with a very old VK friend who gives out
real reports - not "599 what's your call? What's my report?"  The VK copied
the 100mW at 339 which would have been 539 if in the clear without Far
Eastern QRM. But they had a solid exchange of reports etc. The VK and I had
exchanged 589 reports, but we were both running 100 watts and both using
beams. Conditions were not exceptional, and it was a lot of fun to hear the
100mW make the trip.

73,
Geoff.
GM4ESD