Greetings, I'm currently in SV5 (Patmos) for some much needed vacationing. I brought my kit-KX3 #80 along for a maiden voyage. Being WPX CW weekend, I went down to a nice north-facing beach, strung up a ~40' wire into a tree, with a few random length radials, and used a cigarette lighter plug in my rental car. I brought my Macbook Pro and used Rumped logger, with the USB cable. Keying is great. I played a while on 40M and 20M and worked a good number of guys. Even on 40M with the incredibly loud and close Euro sigs I had no problem separating folks.
I got to the beach about Sunrise, and 20 and 40 were both hopping pretty well. S9+ sigs from the states, and 20-40 over 9 sigs from all over Europe. With crowded band conditions, I found that I had to pick someone that was S8 or above for them to hear me with 10w. It was a lot of fun, I only spent about an hour or so operating until it got warm and I decided to go back to the hotel for breakfast. This was around 0400z. Easily worked many Europeans, US/VE, and even 9K2 and A7. Tonight, around 2200 - 0000z I'll get on again and work some more guys from the hotel (using an inverted vertical hanging from the hotel room deck). That works quite well, I worked even the E40 expedition on 10M with 5w, one call. :) Our hotel is on a hillside overlooking a nice saltwater bay a few wavelengths away :) Hopefully I'll see a number of you tonight on 20/40M, best 73 from SV5! After this we'll be off to a number of islands in SV8, then off to 9H. Jeff SV5/N6GQ, 9H3ZZ ______________________________________________________________ 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
