[Elecraft] 20 meter CW

[Stephen Selberg]

Dave,

I had the power set to 5 watts and the kx3 meter showed 5 watts rf going
out. I just think that this antenna isn't very efficient with the coil so
maybe not much RF is actually going out. the practice mode you're speaking
of, are you referring when you turn the power down to 0.0? Definitely was
at 5 watts. I started off at 3 watts but decided to bump it up more to see
how much time I could get out of these energizer lithium batteries. I'm
going to throw a wire up this evening and do some A/b tests with the MP1
antenna. Wanted to see how well it might work if I find myself
somewhere without any trees.  I imagine next time I venture this way I'll
have an Alexloop.


Christian. The weird suffix is because I'm at the in-laws house in Nevada.
My home QTH is in california. I was off the air until for some years up until
April 2012. Are people still using /call area when out of their home call
area?


73,
Steve KS6PD


On Tuesday, July 2, 2013, dave wrote:

> If you sent CQ for 15 min and didn't get even one spot on RBN then I'd
> have to wonder if you have the TX set to code practice mode. Nothing going
> out to the antenna. Put a watt meter in line to be sure there is RF going
> out . . .
>
> 73 de dave
> ab9ca/4
>
>
>
> On 7/2/13 3:44 PM, Stephen Selberg wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Yeah I was sending CQ de ks6pd/7 for about 10 min before my email and 5
>> min
>> after. Looked myself up on rbn and didn't see myself either. Maybe it
>> means
>> I need to stick with wire antennas.  Thought I'd bring this one up and
>> give
>> it a test. Maybe later this evening will provide better results. Fig'd
>> there prob isn't going to be too much activity in the middle of the day on
>> a Tuesday.
>>
>> Steve KS6PD
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 2, 2013, John Oppenheimer wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Steve, Did you send CQ? There are no RBN spots for you.
>>>
>>> Hi Greg, That may have been me, I sent one CQ set on .052 to test for
>>> RBN returns. Seven Hits. K2 10 watts, attic dipole.
>>>
>>> John KN5L
>>>
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