80 m EQP freq: suggest 3535 kHz "watering hole"

[wayne burdick]

On our EQP rules page, we suggested 3530-3540 for EQP on 80 meters.
Since this range doesn't include a traditional fixed QRP frequency, I
suggest 3535 kHz. Sorry for the late notice.

I have a poor antenna on 80 m, but I'd *really* like to try to make an
80-m EQP QSO this year. See you there, I hope!

Wayne
N6KR


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[Stephen W. Kercel]

There is a bit of EQP activity around 3540. Severe QRN here in Maine.

73,

Steve
AA4AK


At 09:41 PM 3/11/2006, wayne burdick wrote:

>On our EQP rules page, we suggested 3530-3540 for EQP on 80 meters.
>Since this range doesn't include a traditional fixed QRP frequency,
>I suggest 3535 kHz. Sorry for the late notice.
>
>I have a poor antenna on 80 m, but I'd *really* like to try to make
>an 80-m EQP QSO this year. See you there, I hope!
>
>Wayne
>N6KR
>
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[Kevin Rock]

Good Grief,
    There is severe QRN here on the other coast too :)
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          Kevin.  KD5ONS



On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:03:45 -0500, Stephen W. Kercel
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> There is a bit of EQP activity around 3540. Severe QRN here in Maine.
>
> 73,
>
> Steve
> AA4AK
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[James C. Hall, MD-2]

Bad, bad QRN with thunderstorms north of us - back up to 40M.

73, Jamie
WB4YDL

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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] 80 m EQP freq: suggest 3535 kHz "watering hole"

There is a bit of EQP activity around 3540. Severe QRN here in Maine.

73,

Steve
AA4AK


At 09:41 PM 3/11/2006, wayne burdick wrote:

>On our EQP rules page, we suggested 3530-3540 for EQP on 80 meters.
>Since this range doesn't include a traditional fixed QRP frequency,
>I suggest 3535 kHz. Sorry for the late notice.
>
>I have a poor antenna on 80 m, but I'd *really* like to try to make
>an 80-m EQP QSO this year. See you there, I hope!
>
>Wayne
>N6KR
>
>
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[Stephen W. Kercel]

Fellow Elecrafters:

Overall, my new K2 is performing wonderfully.

However, I notice that if I set the requested power to some nominal
level (typically 5 watts) the indicated power often creeps up to
maybe 6 or 7 bars, under normal keying (typically 20 wpm). If I go to
TUNE, the power will start to creep up almost immediately from 5 to
maybe 6.5 Watts. I usually do not stay in TUNE mode for more than a second.

This happens with both a matched antenna (I use a tuner and an
antenna analyzer, and get very close to SWR = 1, before I switch the
K2 into the circuit) or a dummy load.

Is this normal?

Also, when I'm in TUNE mode several numbers are displayed. The first
one looks like the power level. What do the numbers after the power level mean?

Thanks and 73,

Steve
AA4AK


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