While I'm usually in my office on Sunday afternoon/evening and miss the nets, I'd like to point out that cdx are great on 80 for the western US virtually every day this time of the year. With just a short (45 ft) doublet fed with open wire line, I consistently work all the states west of the Rockies with solid signals in the evenings at 100 watts out. And, believe me, with that <1/4 wave doublet my ERP is way below 100 w!
It doesn't take a special antenna to work 1000 miles or so on 80 with a K2/100 as regularly as clockwork. Yeah, we seem to have missed our Christmas snow and had to settle for the ice storm instead. We're plenty well iced up here in town at 300 feet! Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
