[Elecraft] AmTech K2 milliwatting

[Leigh L Klotz, Jr.]

Yesterday was AmTech day, a local operating event hosted by the FARS 
club, on the site of Stanford's Linear Accelerator.  The site provides 
park-like facilities, plus meeting rooms, but the hams provide the 
rest.  It is a fun activity and something to cnsider for your own club, 
especially if you open it to general hams as the FARS club does.

I brought my K2, KX1, and the antenna I made on FD morning with 44ft of 
wire and 300 Ohm twinlead from The Wireman, supported by two fishing 
poles and a tree.

There is a good mix of operating and eyeballing, and plenty of OMs and 
YLs I know showed up, as well as a number of new faces.  I showed my K2 
to quite a few people, and a few tried it in CPO mode but nobody used it 
for a QSO.

I got back to casual contesting in the Salmon Run, and answered an OM in 
Colorado, who gave me a 559, but when it was my turn to give the poutput 
power (part of the exchange) I noticed that somehow the knob had gotten 
turned all the way down!  So I sent 0R1W 1TTMW and had a good chuckle.  
I don't know the exact power out in this situation, so I just gave him 
the requested power reading.

The talks were promising, but I arrived too late in the afternoon to 
join them, and wanted to get operating.  I did get to see the K6WX 
portable vertival beam in action (on a K2) and they worked the World 
Bank in Washington, DC, and N6DQ reportedly showed his SDR1000 to a good 
crowd as well.

73,
Leig / WA5ZNU