Drew: Cool collection of keys!
Congrats. I was quite lucky to work them with my KX2 and a random wire out the window from my office during work hours. (Big Iron, rather Silicon is in the basement shack.) I would hit the MSG then PRE to send my call. After several hours of trying I was able to snag them. This was on 15 meters. And from what I can tell, they had a super operation. Good ops, and they appeared to hear quite well. Bill w8lvn On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 9:42 PM Drew AF2Z <pu...@af2z.net> wrote: > I got HD8R with 100 watts CW to endfed wire antenna. Here's a short > video of my trusty old K3 and Bunnell sideswiper in action: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=folzh8pE6WM > > 73, > Drew > AF2Z > > > > On 11/07/21 11:05, Jim Sheldon wrote: > > My K3S died a couple of weeks ago and I haven't found the power supply > > problem yet - difficult tracing as I don't have the board trace layout > > so finding components off the schematic isn't easy, LOL. > > > > On a lighter not, I replaced it as the shack rig with my KX2 and I've > > been having a blast trying (and sometimes succeeding) to work the > > Galapagos DXpedition HD8R. > > > > With the ARRL Sweepstakes contest on this weekend, HD8R has been > > concentrating on the WARC bands and so far I've worked them on 20, 15 > > and 12 meters (12 just a few minutes ago, using my Tri-Band Cushcraft > > A3S beam as the antenna. Got 'em on the 2nd call much to my surprise. > > The KX2's internal ATU had no problem matching the beam on 24.894 > > (1.0:1) and signals have been pretty decent on 12. > > > > Ant loads on 17 meters too but signals are up and down on 18.074. Fun > > to keep trying though and the KX2 is running great at 10 watts on a 5 AH > > battery. > > > > Jim, W0EB > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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 pu...@af2z.net > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 w8lv...@gmail.com -- --w8lvn-- ______________________________________________________________ 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
