[Elecraft] For you Anti-Scopes

[Ken Alexander]

Oh my goodness!

What are we talking here for a P3, somewhere around $700?  I'm supposed to spend that kind of money to find people on 40 metres in the early afternoon?  It's cheaper to tune through the band with a wide filter selected.  And if I miss someone, good heavens, is it really the end of the world?  If I'm looking for DX it's easier and cheaper to check a DX cluster.

A scope might be handy in contests, so that makes it useful to me maybe 6 to 8 weekends a year.  No sale there either.

This afternoon I could hear the 1 watt signal from the NCDXF 20m beacon in Hawaii.  I could also hear (weakly) the 100 mW signal from the NCDXF beacon in South Africa with my K2 and a vertical...so you can probably guess my opinion on amplifiers.

73,

Ken Alexander
VE3HLS



--- On Wed, 2/17/10, Steve Ellington <n4lq at carolina.rr.com> wrote:

> From: Steve Ellington <n4lq at carolina.rr.com>
> Subject: [Elecraft] For you Anti-Scopes
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 12:35 AM
> My 19" monitor is showing a cw
> segment of 40 meters in the early afternoon. I see 4 active
> cw signals. 
> Tell me....What would be the odds of finding those signals
> by tuning across the band with a knob? 
> 
> You would miss hearing the signal if:
> 1. As you tuned across his frequency, he paused and you
> didn't hear him.
> 2. As you tuned across his frequency, he turned it over to
> the other guy who is too weak to hear. 
> 3. His cw speed is so slow that you tuned across his
> frequency in between characters.
> 4. He ended his CQ before you tuned to his frequency.
> 5. His singnal faded into the noise right when you were
> tuning through his frequency.
> 6. You heard a beep as you tuned but now you can't find
> where he was.
> 7. He started calling CQ right as you tuned past his
> frequency.
> 
> Once you've had a bandscope, it's hard to live without it.
> 
> See it in action: http://n4lq.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=8215456
> 
> Steve
> N4LQ
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