[Elecraft] Notable SSB QSO (HD8R)

[Bill Lederer]

By far it is the most fun per watt of any radio that I have ever owned.

I worked HD8R on 15 with 10 watts to a random wire.

w8vln

On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 6:08 PM Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:

> I took advantage of the excellent conditions today to work a little DX
> with the KX2. I was running 10 watts on 17 meters to a 20 meter vertical.
>
> There was HD8M (Galapagos), loud and clear, calling CQ "up 5" on 18.145.
>
> When I broke the pileup on the third call, I reflected on how many of the
> KX2's features came into play to make this happen:
>
>   - ATU easily matched my 20 meter vertical on 17 meters (1.0:1)
>
>   - internal battery allowed transmit at a full 10 watts
>
>   - speech compression made it sound more like 20 or 30 watts :)
>
>   - used the KX2's stereo audio/dual-receive function to listen on both
>     18.145 (RX) and 18.150 (TX) at the same time; transmitting SPLIT
>
>   - annoying S8 noise pulses were vanquished by the NB
>
>   - carriers from the inconsiderate were dealt with by auto-notch
>
>   - used one of the rig's two DVR messages to do the calling
>
> That's a lot of fully integrated fun in a radio that weighs less than one
> pound and draws only about 170 mA in receive mode. And a great excuse to
> get outdoors.
>
> Details on the KX2 can be found here:
>
>
> https://elecraft.com/collections/kx-line/products/kx2-ssb-cw-data-80-10-m-transceiver
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
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