[TVARC] Thanks, NP2B

[Frank M]

OK, you all finally convinced me. I am no longer sending false 599 reports. I will revert to the tried and true standard of 5NN

Frank KA1AF 


> On Dec 13, 2017, at 9:32 PM, Dennis McKinney <n0smx2 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 599 NOT being true are you serious!!! Now thats the air out of my sails...   😂😂😎😎😁😁
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> On Dec 13, 2017 4:29 PM, "Rich Erlichman" <rich.erlichman at gmail.com <mailto:rich.erlichman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Are you saying the “599” signal reports you were giving were not accurate reports? J
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> From: tvarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:tvarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net> [mailto:tvarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:tvarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net>] On Behalf Of George Briggs
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 4:07 PM
> To: tvarc at mailman.qth.net <mailto:tvarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [TVARC] Thanks, NP2B
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> Folks,
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> John, NP2B, does it again!  He suggested that, before I send my K3 with the “blown” front end
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> to Elecraft, I should check its performance on other bands than 10M, where received signals
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> were WAY down.  So I did.  Sonofagun, all the other bands were fine.  So I began to look elsewhere
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> for a problem.  I shoulda begun the entire process looking for an operator error.  You see, the K3
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> not only has two main antenna inputs, it also has an input for a separate receive antenna.  And
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> these inputs can be selected independently by band.  Somehow, the RX ANT button had been pushed
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> on my K3.  Since there was NO antenna connected to the RX ANT input, very few signals got
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> through to the receiver on 10M, like ND4G, whose vertical I can almost see from my back yard,
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> and K2PS who was using a 4-element beam at 25 feet.  Phooey!  If it hadn’t been for this issue, I
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> might have made 20 QSOs in the 10M contest instead of 19!
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> Thank you, John!
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> 73,
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> George K2DM
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