[Elecraft] DX on 15 watts

[Gary D Krause]

Hi Tony, I agree with Stan and you also.  However, you live in NY.  The east 
coast seems to have an easier time of it.  I live in Wyoming and I work QRP 
also with a elevated vertical, an assortment of magnetic loops and a K2.  It's 
not as easy here as it is for you guys on the east coast. ;-)

Gary, N7HTS


On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:01:30 -0400
  Tony Castellano <tcastell2 at optonline.net> wrote:
> I totally agree with Stan. I built my K2 less than 2 months ago and have 
> worked 32 countries with 5 Watts so far.
> I also don't have a beam with 10 db gain; I use a plain old dipole, and like 
> Stan, my average reports are 559.
> I have even made a DX contact through a pileup.
> I operate only CW and don't even own a mike. Try it, you may like it.
> 
> Tony Castellano W1ZMB
> tcastell2 at optonline.net
> Hopewell Junction, NY
> RV-6
> N401TC
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "stan levandowski" <sjl219 at optonline.net>
> To: <k5oai.sam at gmail.com>
> Cc: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 9:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] DX on 15 watts
> 
> 
>>
>> Sam, I clearly see your point.  Perhaps I can volunteer some specifics
>> from my own QRP station.  I live in a townhouse in NY state opposite a
>> 1500 foot mountain a half mile away and I'm about 200 feet MSL.  My
>> antenna is an East/West 44' nonresonant doublet in my attic which  loads
>> up on 80 through 6 through an SGC-237 autocoupler.  However, I presently
>> choose to only work 40, 30, and 20.  I built and use all the Elecraft
>> transceivers.  I generally use only 5 watts and I only operate CW. I am
>> a QRP fanatic.  I've worked 83 countries on 5 watts or less and nearly
>> all states with this antenna and my K2 and K3 within the last year.
>> I'm a ragchewer, not a paper-chaser so these numbers do not represent
>> any kind of concentrated effort.  My other antennas are equally
>> non-awe-inspiring.  A 28 foot wire thrown into a tree, with a 33'
>> counterpoise on the ground, regularly gets my K1 signal into Europe and
>> South America from my back deck with 559 average reports.  A homemade
>> magnetic loop sitting in my driveway and 900 milliwatts out of my KX1
>> got to UA1CE in St. Petersburgh on two different occasions. That's
>> better than 5000 miles per watt.
>>
>> QRP is responsible for bringing me back into ham radio.  I left the
>> hobby for many years after becoming rather bored with how easy it was to
>> push the button, aim the tribander on the tower attached to the side of
>> my house, toss my 180 watts into the ether and get a reply 99% of the
>> time.
>>
>> For me, QRP became one of those niche areas in ham radio referred to by
>> another lister.  Every contact is a 'big deal' and when I reach for the
>> power knob on my rig its usually to turn it *down* even further just to
>> see how low I can go.  I've been milliwatting recently.  I also go CW
>> mobile on 40, 30, and 20 with hamsticks.
>>
>> In the end, it all comes down to the gods of propagation.  But even
>> then, I've called CQ on a "dead band" more than once and received a
>> surprising reply around 14.060.
>>
>> Anyway, for what it's worth.....
>>
>>
>> 73, Stan WB2LQF
>> KX1 #2411    K1#2994    K2# 6980    K3#5244     K9 #1 (Cocoa the
>> Chihuahua)
>> Everything is QRP, even the dog.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Sam Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> All these QRP/QRO contacts stories,
>>> are pretty meaningless to me,
>>> *UNLESS*
>>> they have antenna, band, and qth information included.
>>>
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