[Elecraft] VP6DX on 160M... MAN, talk about EARS!

[Tom Hammond]

Wheeee!

Just worked VP6DX on 160M... feeding ONLY the CENTER conductor of my 80/40/30M
dipole with about 120' of coax laying on the ground (170' total coax length)
and an estimated 20:1 SWR into the K3s ATU... which the KAT3 matched to <2:1
without complaint!

NOT ONLY THAT... as I was checking the 'metering' of the above listed 
parameters,
I happened to check my POWER setting... 8.2W output... seems I'd set the POWER
down in an effort to get an external ATU to give me a better 'starting' match
for the KAT3, but finding that the external ATU couldn't hit 160M I took it out
of the line BUT forgot to return the POWER to 100W as intended...!!

So not only did I work 'em with a MUCH less than optimum antenna (probably only
a few PERCENT efficient), I further hobbled myself 9and them!) by 
running (nearly)
QRP.

AND they still heard me!

73,

Tom  N0SS