Ron, After buying my K2/100 about ten years ago, first commercial rig owned since being first licensed in 1946, I did not start to build the KPA100 amplifier until a year had passed because I was having too much fun using the K2 barefoot both on SSB and CW. The great majority of my SSB contacts with the K2 were with DX stations outside of Europe, on both 40m and 15m, with the K2 usually running 5 watts.
With the K2 I use its internal speech compressor set to 3-1. The mike which I use is part of a Heil Prost Plus headset, and I prefer to use the "ragchewing" mike element not the "DX" element. For me a 2.1 kHz bandwidth crystal filter in a transmitter is more useful than a wider filter for working SSB DX. My first 6m SSB QSO in the 1950s (from VE2) was an sporadic E contact, using the output of the final mixer of a 6m exciter which I was building. Must have been only milliwatts :-) 73, Geoff LX2AO es GM4ESD On April 17, 2012, at 21:43 +0200, ron wrote: > I realize many here are in the QRO group as evident by K3 mail (smile) > but here's to hoping there are some QRP'ers in the mix. > > Can you share your experiences using QRP SSB. Whether they be rag > chewing, contesting or working a net. Do you use a speech processor or > specific mikes. Things like that. <snip> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
