[K6BW] ki6ada A long distance (5 watts) QRP

[Lars Williamson]

Good "DX" Steve
Several years ago I worked 20m SSB from South West Louisiana. Over a week in mid summer, mostly at night, I worked all US call areas, 15? states and 5 countries, including Canada and Belize. The funniest comment I got was "Boy, you've got a lot of guts towork 20m SB QRP." Actually, I was missing  the 6 CA until the last night and I really wanted to "complete the set."  As I went to take the rig down and pack it up about 0330, I thought I'd give one more listen. I responded to a CQ from Chico and made my day!
The rig was an MFJ 9420 & 971 tuner into a full wave wire antenna (65') fed 1/3 distance fron the end oriented N-S at about 20" high.73 and good QRP DXingLars W6RMY> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:59:29 -0800> From: ki6ada at sbcglobal.net> To: k6bw at mailman.qth.net> Subject: [K6BW] ki6ada A long distance (5 watts) QRP> > > Hi Everybody > > I have a long distance QRP with just 5 watts! Last Friday 1/18/2007. I had a ssb phone QSO on 20 meters! I worked from Marin Rod and Gun Club to Big Lake Alaska. Not bad for crummy band conditions. I was working the Yaesu FT 817ND into a vertical Buddipole with my counterpoise pointing into a Northwest direction.> > I would love to hear more stories. I have learned that during poor propagation that QRP can still be fun!> > > 73, Steve> > 73 KI6ADA> Steve Johnson> > > > > > > _______________________________________________> K6BW mailing list> K6BW at mailman.qth.net> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/k6bw