[Elecraft] A few thoughts on the AXE1 extender

[Bill Frantz]

This reminds me of one of the first CQP county expeditions I was 
involved in. Out plan was to use the Icom 706MII in the car on 
SSB as the main radio with the Little Tarheel screwdriver 
antenna mounted on the liftgate. The it proved too hard to tune 
the antenna with the Icom, so I switched to the backup K3/10 
which made tuning the antenna easy.

I was running 10 watts. (Having started the contest at 100W, we 
couldn't enter as QRP.) Late in the evening, I tried to make 
contacts on 80M, where the Tarheel is more of a preselector than 
an antenna. I made a few QSOs, and every station said, "You're 
way down in the noise, but we'll try to make it work." Many 
thanks to them for trying.

My lovely wife took pity on me and a new 100W board arrived soon after.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 8/29/19 at 5:35 PM, n6kr at elecraft.com (Wayne Burdick) wrote:

>40 meter operation with a short antenna and QRP is definitely 
>for the adventurous. But every QSO, even with someone across 
>the bay, brings back memories of when I was first licensed. 
>When QSOs were magical.

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