[Elecraft] Fun on 14.074 today

[Ed Cole]

Well it started out troubleshooting why I had bad SWR with the new 20m 
dipole I put up.  And (of course) it was the RG-58 coax jumper I had 
used for umpteen years without trouble.  So realizing that my broken 
tri-band yagi might not be broken, I tried 20m and it tuned up nice with 
my KXPA100/KXAT100.  SWR was about 3.9 without tuning (very old trap yagi).

So I listened to the FD a bit on SSB then tuned in FT8 on 14.074 (wholly 
Moses, the bandwidth was clobbered with signals).  So with only 100w I 
tried a few contacts.  In the last two hours of FD, I made 11-contacts 
(and messed up 12).  Best was working BH2UEZ in PM08 (China) with my 
yagi pointed East.

worked: BC,UWA,SV,SCV,UT,WY,LAX, and OR.  About an hour at 100w the amp 
started faulting (surmised over-temp and lowered power to 30w, finally 
running my k3/10 barefoot).  Also checked 15m and 10m for tuning (all 
good).  Maybe the "old girl" still has some kicks!

Other news I am building a MRF 1K50H LMOS HF/6m amp.  Cited at 1200w, it 
will replace my Harris ch.2 TV amp that I use on 6m.  When new amp is 
running I will sell the Harris with the HP 50v PS I have been using 
(bought a new Meanwell RSP-3000-48 to replace it).

Getting ready to pour concrete to re-set my 2m-eme tower.

73, Ed - KL7UW (1D AK)