[Elecraft] Elecraft CW Net Report

Good Evening,    There was more QSB than I had expected.  On twenty meters an operator would be strong one second and gone the next.  On forty meters there was more noise with less QSB.  I had to move downward to avoid the RTTY folks on forty.   On 14050.4 kHz at 2200z: W0CZ - Ken - ND

[Elecraft] Elecraft SSB 20 meter net - Easter Sunday April 4, 2021

There were 17 check ins for the Easter Sunday April 4, 2021 edition of the Elecraft SSB 20 meter net. Our “normal’ net control station Eric WB9JNZ was enjoying Easter with family and friends so Steve WM6P stepped to the plate as net control to do battle with the propagation gods. As usual

[Elecraft] No power out of a K line.

I have an Elecraft K3, KAT 500 and KPA 500. I usually use it at full power with a 260’ off-center dipole on 160, 80, 40, and 20m. Last week, I tried it with a 140’ doublet on 160 meters to see if the tuner would be able to reduce the swr to enable operation on that band. Since then