90 foot off-center-fed dipole with the apex at about 25 feet. One end slopes to 15' high gazebo roof, the other immediately gets tangled up in a large oak tree.
Could be worse, but not much :) Wayne N6KR > On Sep 21, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Barry <k3...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Wayne, > Nice going! What were you using for an antenna? > > 73, > Barry > K3NDM > > On September 20, 2018 11:07:01 PM EDT, Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> > wrote: > Tonight I heard a very weak CW CQ on 7.007 MHz right around sundown -- LA1MFA > (Norway). With the filtering on the K3S dialed down to 100 Hz, 30 Hz audio > peaking filter (APF) turned on, and the noise blanker optimized, he was > readable. I called and he came right back to me. > > I would normally have tried this at 10 watts first, but something about the > tenuous nature of conditions these days had me cranking the power up to 100 W > from the get-go. > > Despite requiring "full" power to make this contact, it was a reminder that > DX is out there if you tune slowly.... > > On a related topic, I discovered that as a guy of a certain age, 400 Hz may > be a better pitch for copying weak signals than my usual 550 Hz. This could > be a well-understood psychoacoustic phenomenon, but it came as a pleasant > surprise. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
