[Elecraft] DX on 15 watts

[Sam Morgan]

All these QRP/QRO contacts stories,
are pretty meaningless to me,
*UNLESS*
they have antenna, band, and qth information included.

1w/5w/15w from a 3 ele beam @ 70 feet
is a bit of a different story
from a short clandestine wire and an apartment building....

or
160m vs 20m

or
DXCC from middle of Europe _or_ middle of Kansas

just saying......
;-)

--
GB & 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan

On 8/1/2011 12:48 AM, Dave Sergeant wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2011 at 22:07, vicki glover wrote:
>
>> Until I built my K2 (7186) I had no idea that dx on 15 watts was even
>> possible.  I have been running QRO for a couple of years and making the
>> contacts, but getting alot of these same contacts (Sweeden, Hungary,
>> Lithuania) on 15 watts with a radio I built is hard to top.  Only been
>> running this rig for a week or two now, but am extreamly well pleased
>> with it. Just wanted to share the joy. 73 mike-kb3qja __
>
> 15 Watts is decidedly QRO, I have never run more than 5 Watts from my
> K2 in the past 9 years and have 231 DXCC. Last month I worked in the
> Club 72 Marathon (http://club72.su/marathon.html) with just 1 Watt for
> most of my QSOs and found stations came back just as easily with that
> power as they did with 5. Conditions have been pretty dire recently but
> nevertheless had quite a few nice QSOs including some in PY and LU.
> Give it a go, you will be surprised.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC