Propagation was pretty darn good too... worked a Mn station running 5 watts who was 30 over in Tn.
Folks were telling me I was pegging the needle running 100 watts. Really wasn't expecting those lind of comments, nor the DX worked either. QRP is surprisingly effective on 160 with a decent antenna, and sometimes without... 72, Julius n2wn Gary Smith wrote: > > Lyle & Dave, > > Thank you so much for your explanations. > > I realize all the efforts I have put in towards my 150 meter radial > field had to work in my favor. I am on the ocean and my back yard is > a salt water marsh. I use the first tall tree at the marsh's edge as > the support for my 160 meter inverted-L. It is electrically long and > I use doorknobs at the feed point to give me a 1:1 match at 1.830. > > I have 60 some 130' radials laid out with 1/2 of them on the marsh > and the rest on the bog beside it. I have the same kind of L attached > to the radial plate for 80M and in the center of the plate is > attached a butternut HF9V. The get selected via an Ameritron remote > coax switch. FWIW, I do extremely well on low bands with this for I'm > forever hearing in contests how powerful my signal is yet I always > adhere to less than 1500W out. CW I set at around 1,100 watts out in > a contest just so I know my score is guaranteed to be legit. > > Several days ago I worked at the K3 stated 100mw level and was amazed > by how many replies I was able to get on 160M & 80M. I had started > out at 5W and gotten several replies and then when I received a 579 > from Wisconsin on 160, I dropped to the lowest the scale offered at > 100mw and he gave me a 459. I called more CQs at 100mw and worked a > NC, IA and MI back to back, to back. I wanted to go lower and try > 10mw, even 1mw if possible but was not sure how to do this without > possibly transmitting into the wrong output. > > I am on the road at the moment but will try your suggestions when I > get back. > > Amazing what an advantageous antenna system will do. I entered the > SSB contest for two hours last night just to give people some > contacts/multipliers. The C6 I worked said he'd heard me earlier and > took the time to tell me several sentences worth how powerful my > signal was. The same for several VE stations and one from WV. I know > the antenna is big in those reports but I also wonder how much using > the K3 with it's compression played a part as well? > > Gary > KA1J > >> > If I want to operate at say, 1 watt I believe all I have to do is >> > adjust the power out and it will go from 100mw to 120W using the main >> > antenna 1 or 2. >> >> Yes. >> >> > If that is true, how does one select and use less that that? >> >> Set up the transverter band per page 39 in the manual (latest rev D-2). >> >> Use the XVTR OUT connector for the Tx output. >> >> Be sure to run the transmit calibrations routine from the K3 Utility for >> the milliwatt output. See the help in K3 Utility for details. >> >> If you want to force the radio to use milliwatt level output on the KXV3 >> without first setting up a transverter band, then set CONFIG:KXV3 TEST. >> See page 49. >> 73, >> >> Lyle KK7P >> > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > > ----- Julius Fazekas N2WN Tennessee Contest Group http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html Tennessee QSO Party http://www.tnqp.org/ Elecraft K2/100 #4455 Elecraft K3/100 #366 -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-QRPp-tp2399720p2409611.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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