K4 question +12m SOLVED
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K4 question +12m SOLVED
 
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I am surrounded by hams in my suburban neighborhood, one new ham two blocks away who is S9+20db when he runs qrp. I pray he doesn't learn cw.
My question is, what model of K4 will supply the same blocking dynamic range equal to or better than the K3S? The K4HD? I need RF protection! Every day is Field Day here. On another topic, I took the advice of someone on this list who suggested my best solution to my 12m antenna problem was to throw up a low dipole with bubble gum and duct tape. I threw up a 12m inverted V, apex at 18ft, ends at about 12ft, with zip ties, a watering can holding down one end, a ladder on the other, and a fiberglass mast tied to the wrought iron grating on the front porch with clothsline (xyl lost her marbles when I said I was going on the roof) in four back-breaking hours with big help from Terry, WB6PVU. RG8x feedline coming through the front window with open coils on the living room floor made the xyl ecstatic and kept the cats amused Today I waited for hours for propagation to come up, and as soon as I could reliably hear VP6R, I started banging away with the K3 and KPA500 squeakin' from the freakin', steam coming off the rg8x. Now I'm in their log on 12m cw! Ham radio--still exciting after 47 years. 73 Eric WD6DBM Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Eleracft site : https://elecraft.com is down, almost in Europe. Do you know it ? Besta regards, Graziano IW2NOY / W2NOY ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
Re: Elecraft Site Down in Europe
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It is fine in Canada, but I doubt that Elecraft can solve this since it is
likely an European hosting issue and it is done by a 3rd party. Mike va3mw On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 8:57 AM Graziano Roccon (IW2NOY) < [hidden email]> wrote: > Hello, > > Eleracft site : https://elecraft.com is down, almost in Europe. > > Do you know it ? > > Besta regards, Graziano IW2NOY / W2NOY > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
Re: K4 question +12m SOLVED
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This is what I love about Ham Radio with a wire and on CW..Great story! I'll never will use any digital modes and the K3 is my last radio..at 76 and on a fixed income like so many of us are..the K3 will be with me in the pine box along with my Begali..No room for a PC..
73s Bob W5RG On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 6:23:21 AM CDT, eric norris via Elecraft <[hidden email]> wrote: I am surrounded by hams in my suburban neighborhood, one new ham two blocks away who is S9+20db when he runs qrp. I pray he doesn't learn cw. My question is, what model of K4 will supply the same blocking dynamic range equal to or better than the K3S? The K4HD? I need RF protection! Every day is Field Day here. On another topic, I took the advice of someone on this list who suggested my best solution to my 12m antenna problem was to throw up a low dipole with bubble gum and duct tape. I threw up a 12m inverted V, apex at 18ft, ends at about 12ft, with zip ties, a watering can holding down one end, a ladder on the other, and a fiberglass mast tied to the wrought iron grating on the front porch with clothsline (xyl lost her marbles when I said I was going on the roof) in four back-breaking hours with big help from Terry, WB6PVU. RG8x feedline coming through the front window with open coils on the living room floor made the xyl ecstatic and kept the cats amused Today I waited for hours for propagation to come up, and as soon as I could reliably hear VP6R, I started banging away with the K3 and KPA500 squeakin' from the freakin', steam coming off the rg8x. Now I'm in their log on 12m cw! Ham radio--still exciting after 47 years. 73 Eric WD6DBM Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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One of the really great things about ham radio is that each
person can find their own place in the hobby. However, I did get a good illustration of why so many people are using the digital modes, particularly the FTx modes. I operated in CW WW SSB over the weekend from New Hampshire. I operated QRP because the radio I had was a barefoot KX3. The only band I could be heard on was 20M where I was using a homebrew 2 element wire beam about 18 feet above the ground. In about 9 hours of operation, I managed to eke out 13 QSOs, 11 to EU and 2 to NA. The good news is that there were 2 ATNO DXCCs. The next day I decided that I really should complete at least one QSO with VP6R before they went QRT. After trying for 15-20 minutes, and flipping the beam so it was pointed away from EU instead of to EU, I managed an FT8 Fox/Hound QSO on 20M sending a -14 and receiving a -12 report. This QSO certainly wouldn't have happened on SSB, and probably not on CW either. 73 Bill AE6JV On 10/29/19 at 10:20 AM, [hidden email] (Bob Gibson via Elecraft) wrote: >This is what I love about Ham Radio with a wire and on >CW..Great story! I'll never will use any digital modes and the >K3 is my last radio..at 76 and on a fixed income like so many >of us are..the K3 will be with me in the pine box along with my >Begali..No room for a PC.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Re: Computer reliability, performance, and security: 408-356-8506 | The guy who *is* wearing a parachute is *not* the www.pwpconsult.com | first to reach the ground. - Terence Kelly ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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