Had an interesting time last night. Called CQ in the QRP fishing
grounds (7040) with the K2 set to about 15 watts. Got a weak answer
from a station in VA. Gave him a 449 and he gave me 569. Turns out I
had caught him on a peak, his signal was really more like 329. I copied
name, RST & QTH. He said he was running QRP. I asked him for his rig
and power and it went like this.
"fb on all keith. Rig here i .... ng ... w ... d ... et antenna. hw
cpy?"
Every time he sent something that wasn't boiler plate his signal would
fade into the noise floor or I'd have some QRM or QRN crashes. It took
a few exchanges but turns out he was running 1 watt to a doublet.
Suddenly I was the station that was 10 dB louder. I was the QRO station
who had a solid signal and needed to send things only one time. When I
put the rig on the air at 15 watts I expected to be the weak one. I
guess he just felt compelled to bow to the K2 mojo :-)
- Keith KD1E -
- K2 5411 -
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