[Elecraft] Special Log for this year's SS

Greg - AB7R ab7r at cablespeed.com
Mon Nov 17 11:27:53 EST 2008


I don't know how unique this is but I actually had a QSO with KK7P during SS this 
weekend.  Needless to say I was shocked!  At first I thought someone was hijacking 
his callsign.  Lyle doesn't do contests.  But I recognized the voice and was soon  
put at ease.  Then I wondered if Lyle was operating with his radio laid out on his 
work bench in pieces...connected by a gaggle of jumper wires, or if he actually had 
it all put back together.  No...I'm pretty sure it was in pieces.  :) 

Thanks for the Q Lyle!

As usual the K3 did great!  While I can't yet keep up with the likes of K5WA...I 
just can't get use to SO2R having to listen to different voices in each ear at the 
same time.  I have enough voices in my head to listen to without the headphones.  
But I did get just short of 1100 contacts and got the sweep too.  Puerto Rico was 
the last nail in the coffin.  I did use the second radio for tuning around on other 
bands for multipliers and that's how I found NWT and PR.

Thanks to Joe, W4TV and John, K3CT, the new IS filter codes for N1MM made it easy 
for switching from user-set wide to narrow filters where you can also specify the 
filter FC.  Once I had the K3 dialed in there was not much to do with its controls 
except for the RIT and an occaisional use of AGC controls when working a weak 
station aside from tuning the second radio listening for multipliers.

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73,
Greg - AB7R
Whidbey Island WA
NA-065






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