[Elecraft] Re: ARRL November Sweepstakes CW

[John Huffman]

I enjoyed SS this year.  Operated about 10 hours and didn't run into any of 
those top ten items listed.  Did get a lot of "73"s and "GL"s.

The K2/100 and dipoles were a great combination.  I set the CW filter as narrow 
as possible and did the same with the KDSP2 filter.  Also used the KDSP2 noise 
reduction.  Turned off the preamp on 20 and put on the attenuator on 40 and 80.

Using hunt and pounce, it was almost single signal reception for every QSO with 
little or no QRM.  Sure made for nice listening.

Last year at a club station I used one of the most popular transceivers sold. 
It was awful for Sweepstakes.  The receiver desensed whenever there was a strong 
signal within 5 kHz.  For Sweepstakes, that's all the time.  You'd get half way 
through an exchange only to have the station drop out as nearby signals took 
over the AGC.

There is nothing, that I can afford, that is close to the K2 when it comes to 
enjoying contests.  It's not everybody's cup of tea, but it sure is more fun 
when the receiver makes for easy listening.

73 de NA8M
John