[Elecraft] Colorado to New Zealand on 10 watts

[Fred Smith]

Hi Doug

I have replaced all my cable both above and buried with LMR-400 series coax.
In fact after doing testing I now use the DXE series MAX400 (best prices and
free shipping) same properties and you get it all in one coax DB/UF/400
combined. I recently replaced about 500' of older 7 yr old coax for it on
towers and buried. For QRP I always use the lowest loss coax at home where I
have longer than 10-15' of coax.

I don't want to lose any of my signal from the antenna to the radio so I
always use the best coax I can for all HF apps, coax is cheap for what it
does and you expect of it.


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From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Doug Person
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 10:03 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Colorado to New Zealand on 10 watts

Well, I just replaced my 12 year old buried feed line with some new
double-shielded RG-8X.  Just to test it out, I connected the antenna system
to the KX3.  My antenna system consists of 3 trap dipoles: 80/40,
30/17/12 and 20/15/10.  I switched to 17 and tuned around.  I heard ZL1BD
calling CQ.  After a few tries Al came back to me with 100% copy.  
I wouldn't exactly call the band wide open.  But, that was a very impressive
QSO. For me, after 52 years of hamming - that was a record breaker.

See? QRP DOES work!

vry 72, de Doug K0DXV
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