[TVARC] Thanks, NP2B

[RALPH WHITACRE]

Pete, K2PS, was a true 45 db over S9 at my QTH.  How do you send that in contest ?

de N8RW

> On December 13, 2017 at 5:20 PM George Briggs <k2dm at att.net> wrote:
> 
>     Rich,
>     Au contraire, those 599 reports were quite legit.  You hadda be 599 for me to hear you.
>     George
>      
>      
>     From: Rich Erlichman
>     Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 4:29 PM
>     To: tvarc at mailman.qth.net
>     Cc: 'George Briggs'
>     Subject: RE: [TVARC] Thanks, NP2B
>      
> 
>     Are you saying the “599” signal reports you were giving were not accurate reports? J
> 
>      
> 
>     From: 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
>     Subject: [TVARC] Thanks, NP2B
> 
>      
> 
>     Folks,
> 
>     John, NP2B, does it again!  He suggested that, before I send my K3 with the “blown” front end
> 
>     to Elecraft, I should check its performance on other bands than 10M, where received signals
> 
>     were WAY down.  So I did.  Sonofagun, all the other bands were fine.  So I began to look elsewhere
> 
>     for a problem.  I shoulda begun the entire process looking for an operator error.  You see, the K3
> 
>     not only has two main antenna inputs, it also has an input for a separate receive antenna.  And
> 
>     these inputs can be selected independently by band.  Somehow, the RX ANT button had been pushed
> 
>     on my K3.  Since there was NO antenna connected to the RX ANT input, very few signals got
> 
>     through to the receiver on 10M, like ND4G, whose vertical I can almost see from my back yard,
> 
>     and K2PS who was using a 4-element beam at 25 feet.  Phooey!  If it hadn’t been for this issue, I
> 
>     might have made 20 QSOs in the 10M contest instead of 19!
> 
>     Thank you, John!
> 
>     73,
> 
>     George K2DM
> 
>      
> 


 

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