[Elecraft] K2 and DX

[jeff martin]

And grayline prop Saturday and Sunday, 30 and 40 meters was great too...
Worked S58N, Mike on 30M CW and 40 SSB (first call!) both on my lil K2...
Gotta love it!

Jeff
N7KRT


--- On Mon, 11/16/09, Gary D Krause <n7hts at bresnan.net> wrote:

> From: Gary D Krause <n7hts at bresnan.net>
> Subject: [Elecraft] K2 and DX
> To: "Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 8:27 AM
> This weekend was fantastic for
> DX.  15 and 17 meters were open most of the day 
> at my location in Wyoming.  I worked a Japanese
> station on ten watts with my 
> K2.  He asked me to repeat my power level three
> times.  Apparently, he 
> couldn't believe I was only running 10 watts CW.  Of
> course the propagation 
> had a lot to do with it.  Then there is my antenna...a
> home-brewed, 
> non-resonant, multi band vertical.  Okay, maybe the
> vertical didn't have a lot 
> to do with it but, who cares.  I also worked the
> Canary Islands on the same 
> ten watts.  So, I figure it is a combination of
> propagation and K2 mojo.  This 
> weekend felt like the peak of a sunspot cycle rather than
> the bottom.
> 
> I also heard France and Germany.  DX isn't as easy to
> come by here in the 
> middle of the country.  I hear hams on the eastern
> seaboard working DX like 
> it's next door.
> 
> Gary, N7HTS
> 
> 
> 
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