It is astonishing to me that the K2 with the teeny-tiny 160 mtr board can do what it does on this band. It hears so well, and is so immune to IMD from strong stations sometimes encountered on top-band...
Friday night I operated K2 QRP as W5YA, High Desert QRP Club.. operated only fifty minutes according to the log, totaled 47 contacts in 27 sections, never tried calling CQ. K6SE with his K2 was BOOMING in. I think skip was short, but those signals were solid with relatively low noise. Most stations heard over S-5 I could work QRP.
Saturday night I operated K2-100-AT as KT5X. I had no trouble maintaining a run frequency with 75 watts to log a 93 QSO hour, (22 in ten minutes), then some S&P to total of 148 Q's in 50 sections in two hours. Conditions did not seem great as heard no Carribean stations at all. Wasn't awake during European grey-line, so dunno if might have heard from them.
My top-band antenna is a 50 foot top-loaded tower tuned first with a BIG component homebrew tuner adjusted to band center, then tweaked with the KAT-100.
73
FD
New Mexico
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