[Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion
FYI - if any Listers here happened to work 3DA0US in the last couple of days, you might be interested to learn that he was running a KX3 at between 5 and 10 watts depending upon his DC input level. His antenna was a PAR Omni Angle on a 22 foot fiberglass pole. He made 400 contacts in two days of operating and he was only on a few hours each day. In a couple of weeks he'll be operating as 7P8US with the same rig and antenna. The PAR Omni Angle is only a 7 foot aluminum rectangle with a matching network and it only weighs a couple of pounds. Most hams would probably dub the Par Omni Angle a "suboptimal" or "compromise" antenna. A well versed operator, knowledge of propagation, patience, preparation, perseverance and top shelf equipment goes a long way to offset the handicap of a "compromise" antenna. 73, Stan WB2LQF __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion
So does having a semi-rare callsign. Dave AB7E On 2/6/2014 6:05 PM, stan levandowski wrote: FYI - if any Listers here happened to work 3DA0US in the last couple of days, you might be interested to learn that he was running a KX3 at between 5 and 10 watts depending upon his DC input level. His antenna was a PAR Omni Angle on a 22 foot fiberglass pole. He made 400 contacts in two days of operating and he was only on a few hours each day. In a couple of weeks he'll be operating as 7P8US with the same rig and antenna. The PAR Omni Angle is only a 7 foot aluminum rectangle with a matching network and it only weighs a couple of pounds. Most hams would probably dub the Par Omni Angle a "suboptimal" or "compromise" antenna. A well versed operator, knowledge of propagation, patience, preparation, perseverance and top shelf equipment goes a long way to offset the handicap of a "compromise" antenna. 73, Stan WB2LQF __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion
When I bought mine a few months ago, it was $99 for the antenna and one matchbox; each additional matchbox was $20. 73, Stan WB2LQF On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:40 PM, Jim Lowman wrote: Does anyone know what this antenna costs? On the website, it says "E-mail for pricing." 73 de Jim - AD6CW On 2/6/2014 5:05 PM, stan levandowski wrote: FYI - if any Listers here happened to work 3DA0US in the last couple of days, you might be interested to learn that he was running a KX3 at between 5 and 10 watts depending upon his DC input level. His antenna was a PAR Omni Angle on a 22 foot fiberglass pole. He made 400 contacts in two days of operating and he was only on a few hours each day. In a couple of weeks he'll be operating as 7P8US with the same rig and antenna. The PAR Omni Angle is only a 7 foot aluminum rectangle with a matching network and it only weighs a couple of pounds. Most hams would probably dub the Par Omni Angle a "suboptimal" or "compromise" antenna. A well versed operator, knowledge of propagation, patience, preparation, perseverance and top shelf equipment goes a long way to offset the handicap of a "compromise" antenna. 73, Stan WB2LQF __ 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 __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion
That would be Ulrich, N2DE, KX3, Begali Adventure, & his baby, the Begali CW Machine. A combo very hard to beat. 73 Mike KD8RQE In a message dated 2/6/2014 8:05:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, sjl...@optonline.net writes: FYI - if any Listers here happened to work 3DA0US in the last couple of days, you might be interested to learn that he was running a KX3 at between 5 and 10 watts depending upon his DC input level. His antenna was a PAR Omni Angle on a 22 foot fiberglass pole. He made 400 contacts in two days of operating and he was only on a few hours each day. In a couple of weeks he'll be operating as 7P8US with the same rig and antenna. The PAR Omni Angle is only a 7 foot aluminum rectangle with a matching network and it only weighs a couple of pounds. Most hams would probably dub the Par Omni Angle a "suboptimal" or "compromise" antenna. A well versed operator, knowledge of propagation, patience, preparation, perseverance and top shelf equipment goes a long way to offset the handicap of a "compromise" antenna. 73, Stan WB2LQF __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion
I would not say the Omniangle is a compromise antenna if it works :-) The operator had nothing else to compare it with and was able to make many contacts with it! We would all like a big Yagi I guess, but they weigh more than a few pounds. The thrill really, is doing more..with less! Incidentally, I am about to find out just how good an Omniangle on 20 metres is, Dale shipped mine out, earlier this week. 73, Jack VK4JRC Club.www.cqara.org.au Member WIA SARL ARRL GQRP #14392 QRPARCI #15068 VKQRP.#833 > On 7 Feb 2014, at 11:05 am, stan levandowski wrote: > > FYI - if any Listers here happened to work 3DA0US in the last couple of days, > you might be interested to learn that he was running a KX3 at between 5 and > 10 watts depending upon his DC input level. His antenna was a PAR Omni Angle > on a 22 foot fiberglass pole. He made 400 contacts in two days of operating > and he was only on a few hours each day. In a couple of weeks he'll be > operating as 7P8US with the same rig and antenna. > > > The PAR Omni Angle is only a 7 foot aluminum rectangle with a matching > network and it only weighs a couple of pounds. Most hams would probably dub > the Par Omni Angle a "suboptimal" or "compromise" antenna. > > > A well versed operator, knowledge of propagation, patience, preparation, > perseverance and top shelf equipment goes a long way to offset the handicap > of a "compromise" antenna. > > > 73, Stan WB2LQF > > > > > > > > __ > 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion
Does anyone know what this antenna costs? On the website, it says "E-mail for pricing." 73 de Jim - AD6CW On 2/6/2014 5:05 PM, stan levandowski wrote: FYI - if any Listers here happened to work 3DA0US in the last couple of days, you might be interested to learn that he was running a KX3 at between 5 and 10 watts depending upon his DC input level. His antenna was a PAR Omni Angle on a 22 foot fiberglass pole. He made 400 contacts in two days of operating and he was only on a few hours each day. In a couple of weeks he'll be operating as 7P8US with the same rig and antenna. The PAR Omni Angle is only a 7 foot aluminum rectangle with a matching network and it only weighs a couple of pounds. Most hams would probably dub the Par Omni Angle a "suboptimal" or "compromise" antenna. A well versed operator, knowledge of propagation, patience, preparation, perseverance and top shelf equipment goes a long way to offset the handicap of a "compromise" antenna. 73, Stan WB2LQF __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion
Dear OMs, Of course the other side of the story is that a good many of the distant stations being worked by the QRP station have large Yagis up high. Those Yagis are doing the job for both parties. I found it relatively easy to work the States with an inside AlexLoop tickled by 10 watts at the tail end of an ARRL DX Contest. The fellows I was working were running out of responders and they had the antennas to hear my pip squeak. It was fun though. So hail to big antennas whenever they can be had and amazement when QRP with a small antenna inside gets through.Some of us go on QRP just because QRO can make us jaded but when I want to work on my CW rag chewing 400 Watts to a Yagi smoothes the process. 73 Doug EI2CN KX1, KX3, K3 -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jack Chomley Sent: 07 February 2014 01:23 To: stan levandowski Cc: Elecraft List Subject: Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion I would not say the Omniangle is a compromise antenna if it works :-) The operator had nothing else to compare it with and was able to make many contacts with it! We would all like a big Yagi I guess, but they weigh more than a few pounds. The thrill really, is doing more..with less! Incidentally, I am about to find out just how good an Omniangle on 20 metres is, Dale shipped mine out, earlier this week. 73, Jack VK4JRC Club.www.cqara.org.au Member WIA SARL ARRL GQRP #14392 QRPARCI #15068 VKQRP.#833 > On 7 Feb 2014, at 11:05 am, stan levandowski wrote: > > FYI - if any Listers here happened to work 3DA0US in the last couple of days, you might be interested to learn that he was running a KX3 at between 5 and 10 watts depending upon his DC input level. His antenna was a PAR Omni Angle on a 22 foot fiberglass pole. He made 400 contacts in two days of operating and he was only on a few hours each day. In a couple of weeks he'll be operating as 7P8US with the same rig and antenna. > > > The PAR Omni Angle is only a 7 foot aluminum rectangle with a matching network and it only weighs a couple of pounds. Most hams would probably dub the Par Omni Angle a "suboptimal" or "compromise" antenna. > > > A well versed operator, knowledge of propagation, patience, preparation, perseverance and top shelf equipment goes a long way to offset the handicap of a "compromise" antenna. > > > 73, Stan WB2LQF > > > > > > > > __ > 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 __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion
Not always, some people like working QRP 2 way, especially where both ends are using "simple" antennas, so to say it is a good many of the contacts being between QRO with large antennas to QRP with small, would not be telling the whole story... Dave (G0DJA) - Original Message - From: "Doug Turnbull" To: "'Jack Chomley'" ; "'stan levandowski'" Cc: "'Elecraft List'" Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion Dear OMs, Of course the other side of the story is that a good many of the distant stations being worked by the QRP station have large Yagis up high. Those Yagis are doing the job for both parties. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion
One thing I would like to add is the fact that Stan and I both worked 3DA0US with our KX3's running QRP power. Tony Castellano W1ZMB tcaste...@optonline.net Hopewell Junction, NY RV-6 N401TC ) - Original Message - From: "stan levandowski" To: "Elecraft" Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 8:05 PM Subject: [Elecraft] (OT) -- Regarding the QRP Discussion FYI - if any Listers here happened to work 3DA0US in the last couple of days, you might be interested to learn that he was running a KX3 at between 5 and 10 watts depending upon his DC input level. His antenna was a PAR Omni Angle on a 22 foot fiberglass pole. He made 400 contacts in two days of operating and he was only on a few hours each day. In a couple of weeks he'll be operating as 7P8US with the same rig and antenna. The PAR Omni Angle is only a 7 foot aluminum rectangle with a matching network and it only weighs a couple of pounds. Most hams would probably dub the Par Omni Angle a "suboptimal" or "compromise" antenna. A well versed operator, knowledge of propagation, patience, preparation, perseverance and top shelf equipment goes a long way to offset the handicap of a "compromise" antenna. 73, Stan WB2LQF __ 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 __ 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
