[Elecraft] Elecraft QSO Party

[Don Rasmussen]

>>>I will be concentrating mainly on 20M phone and CW for the QSO party.  The event starts at 01:00 Sunday morning local time in Thailand.


How nice Stephen!!

The way I envision it, you put up a shortened dipole at 8 to 10 feet. Two days before you even power up the radio, apprehensive hams from all over the world will be pounding your position with their KW's. And the spoilers will be there with their carriers (they figure nobody has a NOTCH?) !!!

After that, any time of the night or day, you turn on the radio to find every frequency a pile up, all calling for you, 20 to 30 over S-9.

You work stations "any ZERO call area, mobile, qrp, and YL ONLY" and then try anything else that may slow them down a little, but to no avail. 

You notice that same big gun W9 that's been calling for 2 hours is now calling "MOBILE QRP" "MOBILE QRP" in a high falsetto. 

After 36 hours of nonstop operation and no sleep, the pileup still has not let up one bit, so you announce - so sorry, I must sleep now, I'll take ONE MORE CALL, who wants to be the last to work me?

At that point the radio bursts into flames and the operator spontaneously combusts too. 

Another needless ham radio related accident - be careful out there!



 

[Elecraft] Elecraft QSO Party
himself at BasicISP.net himself at BasicISP.net 
Wed Mar 11 04:31:48 EDT 2009 

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Here is a point of interest item:

The first and only registered and licensed K2/100 in the Country of Thailand will be operational in the Elecraft QSO Party.

After a lot of paperwork and 4 days on the test bench at the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) of Thailand, My K2/100 was given the green light to operate in Thailand.   Within the next few months I will be operating Mobile HF from Thailand, which will also be a first for a foreigner, according to the NTC.

I will be concentrating mainly on 20M phone and CW for the QSO party.  The event starts at 01:00 Sunday morning local time in Thailand.  

Hope to hear and work as many Elecraft owners as possible with the temporary limited antenna system I have at present.

73 de
Stephen
HS0ZHB