[Elecraft] Conditions, shmonditions: DXing anyway

[Wayne Burdick]

90 foot off-center-fed dipole with the apex at about 25 feet. One end slopes to 15' high gazebo roof, the other immediately gets tangled up in a large oak tree.

Could be worse, but not much :)

Wayne
N6KR



> On Sep 21, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Barry <k3ndm at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Wayne,
> Nice going! What were you using for an antenna?
> 
> 73,
> Barry
> K3NDM 
> 
> On September 20, 2018 11:07:01 PM EDT, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
> Tonight I heard a very weak CW CQ on 7.007 MHz right around sundown -- LA1MFA (Norway). With the filtering on the K3S dialed down to 100 Hz, 30 Hz audio peaking filter (APF) turned on, and the noise blanker optimized, he was readable. I called and he came right back to me. 
> 
> I would normally have tried this at 10 watts first, but something about the tenuous nature of conditions these days had me cranking the power up to 100 W from the get-go. 
> 
> Despite requiring "full" power to make this contact, it was a reminder that DX is out there if you tune slowly....
> 
> On a related topic, I discovered that as a guy of a certain age, 400 Hz may be a better pitch for copying weak signals than my usual 550 Hz. This could be a well-understood psychoacoustic phenomenon, but it came as a pleasant surprise.
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR