[Elecraft] K3 QRPp

[Julius Fazekas n2wn]

Propagation was pretty darn good too...

worked a Mn station running 5 watts who was 30 over in Tn.

Folks were telling me I was pegging the needle running 100 watts. Really
wasn't expecting those lind of comments, nor the DX worked either.

QRP is surprisingly effective on 160 with a decent antenna, and sometimes
without...

72,
Julius
n2wn

Gary Smith wrote:
> 
> Lyle & Dave,
> 
> Thank you so much for your explanations. 
> 
> I realize all the efforts I have put in towards my 150 meter radial 
> field had to work in my favor. I am on the ocean and my back yard is 
> a salt water marsh. I use the first tall tree at the marsh's edge as 
> the support for my 160 meter inverted-L. It is electrically long and 
> I use doorknobs at the feed point to give me a 1:1 match at 1.830. 
> 
> I have 60 some 130' radials laid out with 1/2 of them on the marsh 
> and the rest on the bog beside it. I have the same kind of L attached 
> to the radial plate for 80M and in the center of the plate is 
> attached a butternut HF9V. The get selected via an Ameritron remote 
> coax switch. FWIW, I do extremely well on low bands with this for I'm 
> forever hearing in contests how powerful my signal is yet I always 
> adhere to less than 1500W out. CW I set at around 1,100 watts out in 
> a contest just so I know my score is guaranteed to be legit.
> 
> Several days ago I worked at the K3 stated 100mw level and was amazed 
> by how many replies I was able to get on 160M & 80M. I had started 
> out at 5W and gotten several replies and then when I received a 579 
> from Wisconsin on 160, I dropped to the lowest the scale offered at 
> 100mw and he gave me a 459. I called more CQs at 100mw and worked a 
> NC, IA and MI back to back, to back. I wanted to go lower and try 
> 10mw, even 1mw if possible but was not sure how to do this without 
> possibly transmitting into the wrong output.
> 
> I am on the road at the moment but will try your suggestions when I 
> get back.
> 
> Amazing what an advantageous antenna system will do. I entered the 
> SSB contest for two hours last night just to give people some 
> contacts/multipliers. The C6 I worked said he'd heard me earlier and 
> took the time to tell me several sentences worth how powerful my 
> signal was. The same for several VE stations and one from WV. I know 
> the antenna is big in those reports but I also wonder how much using 
> the K3 with it's compression played a part as well?
> 
> Gary
> KA1J
> 
>> > If I want to operate at say, 1 watt I believe all I have to do is 
>> > adjust the power out and it will go from 100mw to 120W using the main 
>> > antenna 1 or 2.
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> > If that is true, how does one select and use less that that? 
>> 
>> Set up the transverter band per page 39 in the manual (latest rev D-2).
>> 
>> Use the XVTR OUT connector for the Tx output.
>> 
>> Be sure to run the transmit calibrations routine from the K3 Utility for 
>> the milliwatt output.  See the help in K3 Utility for details.
>> 
>> If you want to force the radio to use milliwatt level output on the KXV3 
>> without first setting up a transverter band, then set CONFIG:KXV3 TEST. 
>>   See page 49.
>> 73,
>> 
>> Lyle KK7P
>> 
> 
> 
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Julius Fazekas
N2WN

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Elecraft K2/100 #4455
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