Field Day 2012 with K2-7006

[aj4tf]

If you have W4UA in your field day log on either 15m or 75/80m, then you heard K2/100 #7006 on the air.  It stayed powered for about 23 hours straight.  Unfortunately *I* could not stay powered up for 23 hours straight,  so I had to relinquish command to another operator last night.  

15m was really open to California and Texas from our location (NC), we made many contacts there.

73,

de AJ4TF

[John Strandberg]

Your K2 sounded great on two of our stations when I was listening.

73 John W4DX

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:32 PM, aj4tf <[hidden email]> wrote:

> If you have W4UA in your field day log on either 15m or 75/80m, then you
> heard K2/100 #7006 on the air.  It stayed powered for about 23 hours
> straight.  Unfortunately *I* could not stay powered up for 23 hours
> straight,  so I had to relinquish command to another operator last night.
>
> 15m was really open to California and Texas from our location (NC), we made
> many contacts there.
>
> 73,
>
> de AJ4TF
>
>
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[ny4g]

We were a couple of K2s in South Carolina as a 2B QRP station with a tribander hex beam at 20 ft and an end fed half wave sloped hung from a tree branch at 70 ft.  Sunspots were low at a sunspot number of only 13.  40m became long for a time as we made contact with KH7AA in Hawaii.  Alaska was also in the log.  We were under the call sign NY4G.  We had a solar panel putting out close to 3 amps during the day.  The computers used for logging as well as the wireless router were run from a small pure sine wave inverter.  I was greeted by a 4 foot snake next to my tent around breakfast time on Sunday.  I do not know who was more startled - the snake or me.  We were out in the back woods of someone's property.  We operated mostly CW - with 260 contacts and made 14 phone contacts on the beam as far as Quebec and California.

My backup rig was a KX1 which I did not have to use.  The hex beam was great along with the PAR EFHW dipole.  

Ariel NY4G and KQ4VY Matt

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On Jun 24, 2012, at 5:23 PM, "John Strandberg" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Your K2 sounded great on two of our stations when I was listening.
>
> 73 John W4DX
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:32 PM, aj4tf <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> If you have W4UA in your field day log on either 15m or 75/80m, then you
>> heard K2/100 #7006 on the air.  It stayed powered for about 23 hours
>> straight.  Unfortunately *I* could not stay powered up for 23 hours
>> straight,  so I had to relinquish command to another operator last night.
>>
>> 15m was really open to California and Texas from our location (NC), we made
>> many contacts there.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> de AJ4TF
>>
>>
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[Don Baucom]

Sounds like you had a blast. Last week I was in Taos, NM (see pic) Sat am worked Japan with the K1 #2999 on 40. Then flew back to VA. We arrived home about 7:00pm. XYL approved a run out to the K4LRG field day sight. Was able to watch four K3's in action. Sunday am, set up my K2 #7261 on the deck and made a quick 12 QSO's. Sunday afternoon I was in the shack and noticed a FT-950 sitting with a FT-450D gathering dust. If I looked at the right angle, I could see a K3 #TBD sitting there. XYL will be thrilled to hear 2 leaving only one coming in. I will explain the need for the P3 when I'm driving the wife and kids to the beach

73
Don
K4YND

[Michael Babineau-2]

aj4tf <[hidden email]> wrote :
>Date: June 24, 2012 4:32:54 PM EDT
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: [Elecraft] Field Day 2012 with K2-7006

>If you have W4UA in your field day log on either 15m or 75/80m, then you
>heard K2/100 #7006 on the air.  It stayed powered for about 23 hours
>straight.  Unfortunately *I* could not stay powered up for 23 hours
>straight,  so I had to relinquish command to another operator last night.  

>15m was really open to California and Texas from our location (NC), we made
>many contacts there.

>73,

>de AJ4TF


I operated Field Day as Class 1E from my cottage in QC using K2/10 #5995 running 5W.

It was a pretty casual operation for me, mostly CW, but it was also the first contest that I have
participated in since recently building / installing the KAT2 and KSB2.   I decided that
in spite of the fact I was only running 5W, I should also try to make at least a few SSB QSOs
to get a feel for how the SSB option was working.  I was very pleased to get an unsolicited
comment on how good my SSB audio was (I am using a Kenwood MC-43S hand mic).
I am certain that the station on the other end had no idea I was QRP.

I was also very pleased with the operation of the KAT2 tuner. I normally use an external LDG autotuner.
Having the internal tuner was very slick and made band changing and switching between
my two antennas (a 204 ft doublet & an inverted-L W3EDP) very painless.

The K2 was an absolute joy to use for Field Day, which I guess is not too surprising, as it was designed by
Eric and Wayne to be "the Ultimate Field Day rig".

Michael VE3WMB / VA2NB




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