[Elecraft] K3 APF Adjustable Q

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Even domestic run-of-the mill contacts with people using a limited antenna
such as a short whip sitting on the patio or a random wire in the attic in
an antenna-restricted neighborhood often produce a much weaker than expected
signal. 

Personally, I try to work the weakest signals I can read well. Find much
more interesting rag-chews that way, e.g. homebrewers trying something
haywired on the bench, QRPers and portable stations in a camp site somewhere
or perhaps bicycle or pedestrian mobile. One night I worked a guy on Mt.
Hood snugged up in a snow cave running 1 watt on 40 meters to a hunk of wire
lying on the snow outside. 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----

Pretty good, if the other station is QRP and you are not, if the other
station is DX and 
you are a high-power DXer, or if the other station has a K3 too!

On 10/31/2010 10:05 AM, Byron Servies wrote:
> On Saturday, October 30, 2010, Robert Harmon<k6uj at pacbell.net>  wrote:
>
>> It is a tool to be used in the real tough cases where the signal is right
down in the
>> noise and you need that extra help to pull him out.
>
> Naieve newbie question, because im missing something here: if the signal
you want is
> that hard to receive, what are the chances the other station will be able
to hear your
> reply?
>
> Byron KI6NUL
>
>

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