[Elecraft] K2 on school field trip

[Brian Lloyd]

We just took a three-day field trip with the older kids from the  
school up to Lake Tahoe. I took the K2 along with my SGC-231 tuner and  
some wire. We used a 40' end-fed wire with a counterpoise. We got on  
the air and had reasonable luck on 80M (phone) but no luck on 40M or  
20M. The problem with 10W and a good receiver is that you can hear  
everyone else just great but they can't hear you. Several times we  
answered CQs on 40 and 20 with not even a hint of response from the  
other station.

Yes, we should have operated CW but the kids are not quite ready to  
copy QSO as they are only mostly through learning the alphabet and  
haven't covered numbers and punctuation characters. Soon.

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73 de Brian, WB6RQN
Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com