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

[Robert Tellefsen]

Good job, Tom.
I managed to work them on 30m and 40m cw last night
with my 5w K2 and wire antenas.
Now the only bands I lack QSOs on are 10m and 6m.
Since I don't work 6m, I'm not sweating that one :-)
73, Bob N6WG
The Little Station with Attitude

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hammond" <n0ss at embarqmail.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:14 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] VP6DX on 160M... MAN, talk about EARS!


> 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
>
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