[Elecraft] just 500W ?

[Rick Dettinger]

I know the feeling!  I was fooling around sending into a cantenna with  
my HW 100.  This was in the early 1970's, and I thought that a  
resistor inside a grounded metal can would not let any signal out!  It  
was a major surprise, to say the least, when someone came back to me.   
Only about a mile away, but this was my first QRP contact.  The next  
was still 25 years in the future.

Rick Dettinger
K7MW


>
> I connected a hand key and a battery in series, paid out a roll of guy
> wire and tossed it on the roof, then started listening around the
> rig's 40-m frequency with my Hallicrafters SX101. A guy up in Los
> Angeles was calling CQ, and when he came back to me, I nearly fell off
> my chair. 200 miles on 200 mW, with an unmatched wire laying on the
> roof and a 9-V battery!
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
>