[Elecraft] 7QP whaaahoooo!

Thu May 7 17:40:56 EDT 2009

I also gave my K3 a pretty good workout in the 7QP. 1370 QSOs and
about 220,000 for a claimed score.

73 de Tom (K7ZZ)

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Julius Fazekas <phriendly1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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>
> 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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