K2 and 40 meters

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K2 and 40 meters

k0wa@swbell.net
Hi everyone,
 
I just wanted to say that 40 meters CW has been a great band recently.  The last two people I've talked to on 40 were running K2s.  The last person I talked to on 20 CW was running a K2.  I just found that to be unusal...the last three people were running K2s  They do sound good....what fun to operate.
 
The 40 meter band is rather poor these days but I am hanging out at 7040 about every night.
 
Lee - K0WA
 
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Re: K2 and 40 meters

Kevin Rock
Howdy Lee,
    The reason seems obvious to me.  The Elecraft rigs are so much fun to
use on CW that we, as a group, are on the air running CW more often than
those using lesser rigs.  I've tried listening and sending with one of
those lesser rigs and found myself not enjoying it enough to want to
repeat the experience.  Using an Elecraft rig on CW is much like
breathing.  I don't need to think about it I just do it.
    73,
        Kevin.   KD5ONS

PS There are also quite a few K2s ~4800, K1s ~2000, and KX1s  ~1000 so we
use up a lot of the RF real estate.
    KJR


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:27:40 -0800 (PST), Lee Buller <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I just wanted to say that 40 meters CW has been a great band recently.  
> The last two people I've talked to on 40 were running K2s.  The last
> person I talked to on 20 CW was running a K2.  I just found that to be
> unusal...the last three people were running K2s  They do sound
> good....what fun to operate.
>
> The 40 meter band is rather poor these days but I am hanging out at 7040
> about every night.
>
> Lee - K0WA
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