I was at a cabin at Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland over the past weekend; no way to get on the Internet until today. I ran my KX1, at first on internal batteries, then from my car battery. Antenna was a 42-foot wire thrown up in a pine tree, with a 16-foot counterpoise. Included in 35 contacts were six contacts at one watt with stations in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Germany. When the batteries started to fade (they had about five hours on them prior to the weekend session), I plugged into the car's battery, and, at approximately 3.8 watts, had 29 contacts with the following: Slovenia, Spain, Slovak Republic, Serbia & Montenegro, England, Italy, Cape Verde Africa, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Antigua/Barbuda, Canada, and the US. I've never had so much fun working QRP. I was amazed at the number of stations that came back to me. The only three stations that didn't were one in the Ukraine, one in Slovenia, and one in Italy. I'll have to figure it out for sure when I get home to Indy, but I believe that at least a dozen of the contacts were at over 1,000 miles per watt.
Russ, N9IV
KX1 #742
P.S. I listened for the net Sunday night, but didn't hear it on either frequency.
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