[Elecraft] 7QP whaaahoooo!

Thu May 7 09:21:13 EDT 2009

You were solid here anytime I heard you Dale.

nothing wrong with wire antennas, even the "lowly" dipole ;o) Uber short antennas may present more of a challenge, but lotsa great ear's out there.

I had a few more problems with the mobiles, but envisioned them in canyons or behind mountains from time to time ;o)  (either natural or man made!)

QRP continually provides great surprises, lots of fun and a heck of a lot fewer RFI and other problems :o)  Definitely easier to move around the world with a lil' QRP rig.

Cheers,
Julius

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html

Tennessee QSO Party: Sunday, 6 Sept 2009
http://www.tnqp.org/

Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366

--- On Wed, 5/6/09, Dale Putnam <daleputnam at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dale Putnam <daleputnam at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] 7QP whaaahoooo!
> To: phriendly1 at yahoo.com, "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 2:17 PM
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> Hi,
> 
>   I failed to give credit where credit is very much
> due... the &qp operation was enmtirely on a K2, at less
> than 5 watts out, and on 80/40/ es 20 with only wire
> antennas... yes they are a little longer than the standard
> dipole... well.. most are. And a vertical. 
> 
>   So.. how does this all work? Well.. chalk it up to a
> K2 that does the yeoman duty, with a rx that allows single
> signal reception, most of the time... even with a QP that
> stacks folks. So.. thank you... very much, Wayne and Eric
> and all the folks that made the K2 happen... and that
> continue to make Elecraft happen. 
> 
>   Yep Julius... qrp... is there any other way....most
> of the time? *G*
> 
> --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy
> 
> 
>  
> > Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 11:11:05 -0700
> > From: phriendly1 at yahoo.com
> > To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 7QP whaaahoooo!
> > 
> > 
> > QRP Dale???
> > 
> > Did you guys have any 10M activity?
> > 
> > There was a nice opening to New England on Sunday
> here. One guy in New
> > Hampshire was shocked I was running QRP SSB and coming
> in at 5 over S9...
> > didn't last too long.
> > 
> > Other than being slow at opening and closing windows,
> I hopped from CW to
> > SSB to RTTY all weekend with the K3 with great ease. 
> > 
> > I did have to watch the RF and AF gain when
> going/coming from RTTY. For some
> > reason, I thought the audio out was not affected by
> the front panel
> > controls. Had a lot of help from an anonymous fellow
> from this reflector
> > with some of the RTTY setup details, which is why I
> like hanging here so
> > much :o)
> > 
> > Lotsa K3s in the New England QSO Party, and even a few
> K2s (mine included).
> > I still enjoy the K2 on CW, just sounds so warm and
> mellow (no technical
> > references implied). With the K3, I was able to copy
> individual CW stations
> > virtually on top of each other, which happens a lot in
> QSO parties...
> > 
> > 73,
> > Julius
> > n2wn
> > 
> > 
> > Dale Putnam wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Well, ok, so I am a bit late with this... but
> that let the dust settle a
> > > bit from the weekend of activity. 
> > > 
> > > And... now we can relax, breath deep, and some of
> the lucky ones get to
> > > go to a couple really nifty hamfests. In the
> meanwhile, some of the rest
> > > of us... will be standing outside... looking
> up... wondering if....
> > > hmmmm... if only.... and maybe if....
> > > 
> > > But the truth is in the results, and considering
> that there were so many
> > > QPs this weekend, it was a kick. The results for
> me? Well.. if the
> > > logcheckers don't find a lot wrong, the score
> won't change a lot..
> > > from.... 222Qs with 47 mults, and a score of
> 27.9K... but no WAS... even
> > > on 3 bands... good golly. (Maybe if.... oh.. oh..
> he's back to that
> > > again.. )
> > > 
> > > loook out.. another antenna is about to be
> born.... *G*
> > > 
> > > But the one's you have must work pretty well?
> Sure.. but maybe just one or
> > > two more would be better? 
> > > 
> > > Think she will go along with it? 
> > > 
> > > --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > -----
> > Julius Fazekas
> > N2WN
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> > Tennessee Contest Group
> > http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
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> > http://www.tnqp.org/
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