[QRP-L] Trail Report

[n0tu/Steve]

Yesterday was FUN. Of course it went different than planned. Hiked in
to the FD site about 45minutes from TH. Then I spent more time
slinging the weight and untangling string from brush to get the silly
antenna up than operating. Started out w/88' CFZ fed w/40' RS twin
lead (hung @35' inverted vee fashiion) - Actually I didn't measure it
exactly but that's what I rolled off at OEM the local electronic
surplus candy store - so it may have really been 90-92'. Loaded great
on 20/30 w/KX1 but 9:1 on 40m according to the KX1's ATU? So I folded
back the ends on themselves about ~6' and SWR droped to 3.5:1 on 40m
while 20/30m still were 1.1:1 range. Could have trimmed it more but I
was burning daylight!

Cndx were so-so, weak sigs + slow QSB? It was getting on into the AM
so 40m was getting short. I couldn't raise anyone on 40m. Headed to
30m. it was busy with CHers (I think) on to 20m where I had 3-short Qs
on 20m with: n6voh/Barry in CA, nf0z /Larry in AZ and my bro-inlaw
ac7ma/Rich in WA Got good reprts considering the CNDX. Goats we're
getting restless butting heads etc. and got tangled in my feedline
while sparing and jerted the feedline outa the ATU!. So I finished the
Q with Rich on my cell. Never got to the EF setup before I ran outa
time. I got home just in time to spread horse manure w/tractor and
spreader for 7-hrs!! It's the same type of work I do at job! =8-)

Conclussion was YMMV
Steve/n0tu
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[Phillip Lontz]

Seems to me most computers today are USB as a standard...
I've put up with that stupid RS232 (standard???) for many more years than I
care to think.


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[JC Smith]

Dittos, Phil.  It's way past time ALL ham gear manufacturers started to
realize that serial, and even parallel, ports are a thing of the past.  The
more we let them know it, the sooner it will change.  After 20% of the
industry makes the switch the rest will be forced to follow or loose their
market share.

72 - JC, K0HPS


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Subject: [QRP-L] Wayne...Eric...K2 with USB anytime soon??


Seems to me most computers today are USB as a standard...
I've put up with that stupid RS232 (standard???) for many more years than I
care to think.


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[Bob Nelson-4]

The old RS-232 interface DOES HAVE one redeeming
virtue we should all be aware of, however:  The
interconnecting cable to the peripheral device
can be very long, whereas with USB you have to
keep the cable length quite short unless you
resort to "heroic" measures.  Sometimes the
additional length tolerance of RS-232 comes in
very handy.  I like USB very much of course, but
still like to have RS-232 available for some
purposes.

I hope USB soon becomes the overwhelming norm
for peripherals that are almost always used
right next to the computer.  But for those
which are often used farther away, RS-232 is
still the easiest way to do it.  I have an
RS-232 port card in my computer just for that.

73 - Bob, K6KL


--- JC Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dittos, Phil.  It's way past time ALL ham gear
> manufacturers started to
> realize that serial, and even parallel, ports are a
> thing of the past.  The
> more we let them know it, the sooner it will change.
>  After 20% of the
> industry makes the switch the rest will be forced to
> follow or loose their
> market share.
>
> 72 - JC, K0HPS
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]]On
> Behalf Of Phil Townsend
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 7:12 AM
> To: n0tu/Steve; qrp-l; ElecraftLIST
> Subject: [QRP-L] Wayne...Eric...K2 with USB anytime
> soon??
>
>
> Seems to me most computers today are USB as a
> standard...
> I've put up with that stupid RS232 (standard???) for
> many more years than I
> care to think.
>
>
>

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