[Elecraft] QRP FD KX2 Batteries & FT8 Report

[Bill Frantz]

Interesting question. He reports:

>When our club’s plans for FD fell through at the last minute I set up 1B with my trusty KX-2 with a Bioenno battery and two internal KX2 battery pacs on my back porch. Got a Par 40-20-10 end-fed up about 40’ in a north-south orientation only to find band conditions here were pretty bad here in the north with QRN, QSB and faint signals at best.

It sounds like he was not depending on any of the home station 
infrastructure e.g. antennas, so I think that he was in class 
1B, one or two person portable or even perhaps 1Bb if he was 
battery QRP. YMMV.

But see also: 6.9. Batteries may be charged while in use. Except 
for Class D stations, the batteries must be charged from a power 
source other than commercial power mains.  To claim the power 
multiplier of five, the batteries must be charged from something 
other than a motor driven generator or commercial mains.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 6/25/19 at 11:20 AM, jim at audiosystemsgroup.com (Jim Brown) wrote:

>On 6/25/2019 6:37 AM, Peter West wrote:
>>When our club’s plans for FD fell through at the last minute I set up 1B with my trusty
>KX-2 with a Bioenno battery and two internal KX2 battery pacs on my back porch.
>
>FWIW, that puts you in 1E, not 1B.
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