[Elecraft] K4 Rx is awesome...

[Wayne Burdick]

CW is also the only way to go for pedestrian mobile FD, which I did for a couple of hours while hiking on Saturday. Even with a 4' whip and 5 watts I was working almost every station I called. I stopped long enough to log each QSO so my printing would be legible.

Of course this is not the way to hold and run a frequency.

Wayne
N6KR


> On Jun 28, 2023, at 1:14 PM, Robert Strickland via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> Jim...
> 
> I gave up on all SSB contesting long ago. To my ears and preferences, it's just a pile of gibberish with maybe one very strong/clear signal every 10-20Kc. Not worth it. CW is the only way to contest IMHO. While I've never operated QRP, I suspect that I'm headed in that direction, also.
> 
> ...robert KE2WY
> 
> On 6/25/2023 19:37, Jim Brown wrote:
>> On 6/25/2023 7:19 AM, Al Lorona wrote:
>>> I went to CW after this and found the operating to be a lot better.
>> I gave up on SSB on FD more than ten years ago. Instead, have been doing FD QRP with W6GJB and W6JTI. There are still guys who haven't been on the air in the year between, and some long pauses after a QSO, but that's the exception.
>> 73, Jim K9YC