N0MA used my K2/100 for its CW station this year. We used a 130' dipole up
about 50', fed with ladder line to a 4:1 balun then to the KAT100. It loaded
up just fine on all bands.
The guys on the phone station wanted/needed to run their cool Alpha 1500W
amplifier (to make up for a lack of operating skill?) so that cut our points
in half and caused some interference when we were operating on the same
band. They had a 20m fixation so that helped... we were able to work 15, 40,
and 80 without interference. On 20m I turned off the AGC and the pre-amp and
that seemed to help. I still had trouble hearing weak signals over the hash
from the phone station but any moderately strong signal was OK. That made
CQing difficult but S&P was a breeze.
Once again the 100hz filter made the bands seem nicely organized and quiet.
I was doing a little demo for some guests and pointed out how I could work a
station, then move 500 hz up and wait and sure enough there'd be somebody
there calling CQ. Then I'd switch off the filter and you'd hear the
cacophony going on around you. Back to 100 hz and quietly work the station
and move on to the next.
I expected my K2 to not be bothered at all by the 1500W phone station
located about 300' off the end of (and aligned with) my dipole. I was a
little disappointed but we got along with it OK. We won't be at the top of
the results, what with our points cut in half and all, but we'll get a bonus
for our biodiesel generator that provided steady power and the smell of
deep-fried chinese food all weekend. :-)
Craig
NZ0R
K2/100 #4941
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