Re: [Elecraft] KX1 - 2 Watts to Australia!

2006-04-14 Thread Paul - VE1DY
Hi Alexander, thank you. The antenna is nothing special, just a Carolina windom in amongst the trees at about 30 to 35 feet. Looks to be about 4,500 miles-per-watt (hi). 72, 73, Paul On 4/14/06, Alexander Ponomarenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My congradulations Paul! > Only 2watts for so l

Re: [Elecraft] KX1 - 2 Watts to Australia!

2006-04-14 Thread Alexander Ponomarenko
My congradulations Paul! Only 2watts for so long distance on 40m! It' great!!! What antenna was used for the QSO? Vertical or Yagi? To my astonishment Drew answered me! We had a nice little qso... Drew told me he was using a hb rig at 100w and the temp was 18 deg. I told him I was using my kx1

Re: [Elecraft] KX1 - 2 Watts to Australia!

2006-04-13 Thread Paul - VE1DY
Hi Ron... yes, please do! On 4/13/06, Ron D'Eau Claire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I showed my KX1 with the KXB3080 installed to a new Ham yesterday. His first > question was "how far?" Of course I said world wide when the bands are open. > He politely didn't argue with me. > > Thanks for the rep

RE: [Elecraft] KX1 - 2 Watts to Australia!

2006-04-13 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
I showed my KX1 with the KXB3080 installed to a new Ham yesterday. His first question was "how far?" Of course I said world wide when the bands are open. He politely didn't argue with me. Thanks for the report! I'll have to share your note with him . Ron AC7AC -Original Message- While n

[Elecraft] KX1 - 2 Watts to Australia!

2006-04-13 Thread Paul - VE1DY
While nursing my morning coffee, tuning 40m before going to work, I heard my friend Dale, WB8WOJ working Drew, VK3XU in Australia, on 7033. Signals were pretty good, so I figured I'd try when they were finished... like that was going to happen. Near the end of their qso, of course, on comes a str