[Elecraft] K2: A small milestone!

[TF3KX]

Congratulations!  This is an outstanding accomplishment - not only sticking
with QRP, but also with modest wire antennas.  A great example to the rest
of us and some of the newcomers thinking that all is lost if you don't have
at least 100W and a tribander.

Now, do you give any insights on how this was achieved?  Working contests,
odd hours, simply lots of time on the air, using announcements of
DXpeditions, clusters, studying propagation, etc.?

73 - Kristinn, TF3KX


Mike K8CN wrote:
> 
> Although this will come as no surprise to many readers of this forum, it
> is possible at the very trough of the sunspot cycle to persist and even
> prosper in QRP mode:
> 
> K2/10, #5569, was placed in service on 29 August 2007, and has always been
> operated at 5 W or less.  
> QRP DXCC achieved 22 May 2008 thanks to 5B/LZ2HM.
> Antennas used: 20 meter attic dipole; 135 foot doublet, ladder line fed,
> at 50 feet.
> Longest path: VK3XU, near Melbourne, at approximately 10,527 miles (> 2000
> miles/watt; 40 meter grey line!)
> 
> I offer this as encouragement to those who occasionally lament the dearth
> of sunspots and opt for QRO!
> 
> Cheers, and a spot of bubbly to all,
> 
> Mike, K8CN
> Durham, NH
> 

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