[Elecraft] KPA500 (another view)

[Tony Estep]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
>....I've put a little $$ into antennas, which I'm
> pretty sure has made a much bigger difference...
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Agreed (I usually agree with Fred). Propagation here was super
frustrating today. Lotsa band noise, and weak signals on 10 and 12. I
blew a couple of hours listening to stations that I wanted to work,
but couldn't call because I wouldn't have been sure what I was hearing
if they did come back. 3 db extra of antenna would have solved
everything.

This thread illustrates something about the anthropology of
Elecrafters that I find fascinating. I'm also a member of a list
devoted to radios that aren't much good for anything but no-code
ragchewing. A conversation like this could never happen there; it
would be like a sudden bunch of posts in some Martian dialect, and the
participants would have no idea what anybody was talking about.

Tony KT0NY


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