IARU

[Randy Johnson-8]

After a half-hearted effort in the IARU contest, at about midnight our time,
0700z, I decided to hook up the K2 and try QRP on 40 meters, operating as
AA6SS.    In just over an hour, did 51 QSO's, more than I normally do in any
contest at any time with 100 w from W6. These incl ZL, LU, CX, PY, PJ2, V31,
all with 5 watts into a vertical.

As those who have operated QRP in a contest will testify, it's easy to get
run over, but at that hour, 3AM EDT, only the stalwarts were still up and
there wasn't much competition, which made it a lot easier. Lotta fun to come
onto a contest in the last few hours when all the regulars have already
contacted each other and then they will take the time to dig you out of the
noise.  You feel pretty popular.

Randy W6SJ

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[EricJ-2]

Anything is possible when propagation is in your favor, isn't it?

2 or 3 nights ago at around 0600Z, I was playing with one of the propagation
programs and it was predicting propag on 15m to the South Pacific and
nowhere else. So I jumped up there. Nothing on CW so went looking on SSB.
Three VK2s were in QSO with one another via ground wave and a VK4HFO was
calling CQ. That's it for the entire band. I switched to USB from CW, but
forgot to increase power from 5 watts. He came right back with a 559.

All good things come to an end. Today, is the pits.

Eric
KE6US

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Subject: [Elecraft] IARU

After a half-hearted effort in the IARU contest, at about midnight our time,
0700z, I decided to hook up the K2 and try QRP on 40 meters, operating as
AA6SS.    In just over an hour, did 51 QSO's, more than I normally do in any

contest at any time with 100 w from W6. These incl ZL, LU, CX, PY, PJ2, V31,
all with 5 watts into a vertical.
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[Dave G3VGR]

This weekend during the IARU contest was the first opportunity I had to
really use the K2 in anger. I finished the project about 5 weeks ago, but
was then continually away from home on business trips. Saturday night on 40
metres was a joy, the K2 RX performance was fantastic compared to my IC706.
It was a joy to hear signals separately instead of the "mush" the IC706
generates. I had to struggle a bit with just QRP output, but managed almost
300 QSOs. The KPA100 is almost complete, so I'm really looking forward to
the Autumn contest season with this superb rig.
73, Dave G3VGR
K2 #4783
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Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 8:12 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] IARU

> After a half-hearted effort in the IARU contest, at about midnight our
> time, 0700z, I decided to hook up the K2 and try QRP on 40 meters,
> operating as AA6SS.    In just over an hour, did 51 QSO's, more than I
> normally do in any contest at any time with 100 w from W6. These incl ZL,
> LU, CX, PY, PJ2, V31, all with 5 watts into a vertical.
>
> As those who have operated QRP in a contest will testify, it's easy to get
> run over, but at that hour, 3AM EDT, only the stalwarts were still up and
> there wasn't much competition, which made it a lot easier. Lotta fun to
> come onto a contest in the last few hours when all the regulars have
> already contacted each other and then they will take the time to dig you
> out of the noise.  You feel pretty popular.
>
> Randy W6SJ
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