I lost some of today helping a club member with an antenna but I'm not sure it was any great loss. K2 QRP effort netted 35 QSOs for the whole contest with only 4 mults.
There was one noteworthy thing from this effort. For the first time while I was using my K2 there was this irritating noise being picked up on receive. This noise was LOUD and it promised to make an already challenging day even tougher. Normally this is a pretty quiet location so I was surprised. Anyway, I glanced at the radio and saw the little "NB" switch. I've never had an opportunity to test this particular feature before today. Press the button: noise gone. Turn off "NB" and the noise is back. Wow. That really, really works well! I don't know if the NB circuit for the K1 is as good as the one in the K2, but I've convinced myself that the two K1's I built in November (40/30/20/17 and 80/15) should both have a noise blanker. If anybody is on the fence about whether or not to get the K2 noise blanker I say "go for it". If it works as well as the one in my K2 I think you'll be very happy you did. -- Scott (NE1RD) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Noise-blanker-in-10m-contest-tp14246665p14246665.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
