[Elecraft] SSB Net addition 5-17-2020

[Bill Frantz]

Thanks Eric for adding me. That was a big day for me. The first 
QSO since November since I live in a faraday cage and I haven't 
wanted to haress the management at my retirement community about 
antennas, since they are up to their eyebrows dealing with Covid-19.

I hauled my KX3 out to a picnic table about 200-300 meters from 
the nearest building with electricity and QRM, and set it up 
with the AX1. I was abou 100 meters from the largest local 
river, down in a valley. I had a brand new  Bioenno 6AH battery 
to power it since I had problems getting more that 3W out with 
the internal Enloop batteries.

With this setup, everything worked FB. S0-1 noise and good 
reception. It was my first QSO with the AX1, my first time 
checking into the Elecraft net from New Hampshire, in spite of 
many trials from what should have been a better location -- near 
the top of a hill with a 2 element wire beam

The only thing that was about the same as checking in from CA 
was NC0JW. He continued to be the best relay for my checkin. He 
has really good ears. Thanks again Jim.

73 Bill AE6JV

PS. After the net, I made a 40M FT8 QSO with AA4SS which showed 
that the AXE1 extender was doing its job.

On 5/21/20 at 1:56 PM, elanzl at sbcglobal.net (Eric Lanzl) wrote:

>I need to add another station to the log from Sunday's net that 
>for some reason did not get into my log.    AE6JV   
>Bill   NH  KX3   6454  15 watts from an Elecraft AX1 
>portable antenna.
>Eric WB9JNZ

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