Swains Island

[Jim Brown-10]

On 9/12/2012 12:33 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> West coast advantage!

On THIS one, yes  -- only 4600 miles for me, all the hops over water.

We west coasters think the same thing when we hear you east coast guys
talking about how easy it is to work DXCC in a weekend QRP -- less than
4,000 miles over water to all those countries in EU and AF. For us, EU
is 5,000 - 6,000 miles, AND OVER THE POLE for us. All those countries
you pick up in the Caribbean as a short single hop are two hops for us.
Heck -- I can't even work 100 countries in a contest weekend with 1.5kW
and a pretty good antenna farm!  I think I might have done it once or
twice in the six years I've lived here.

73, Jim K9YC
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You got that right!

73,
Fred/N0AZZ

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West coast advantage!

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 9/12/2012 3:11 PM, W4ATK wrote:

> WOW!!! Good show!  Skill not power.
>
> Jim, W4ATK
>
> On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> On 9/11/2012 11:37 PM, Stan AE7UT wrote:
>>> Got my second band tonight on 40 mtrs QRP with my KX3.
>>> My first DX QRP contact.  That was fun!
>> Congratulations!  I'm trying for all bands QRP.  So far, I've worked
>> them with my K3 set for 5 watts on 10 CW, 15 SSB, 17 CW and SSB, 20
>> CW,
>> 40 SSB, and 160 CW.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
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On 9/12/2012 1:33 PM, Tony Estep wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jim Brown <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>> ....I'm trying for all bands QRP..
> ============
> Good for those who are working them QRP. DX success is not a matter of
> simply adding more power. As many Elecrafters are well aware, a little
> operating skill can substitute for a lot of watts.
>
> Tony KT0NY
>
>

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[Bill Frantz]

I just got back from the West Valley Amateur Radio Association
(using K5EI) field day wrap up meeting. This year they were
working as 10A battery QRP with an all Elecraft HF lineup (K2s
and K3s). In the past there was significant interference between
digital, SSB, and CW on the same band. This year they reported
zero interference problems which they attribute to:

   Elecraft equipment.

   Careful placement of antennas.

   QRP keeps the power down at the local receivers.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 9/11/12 at 11:25, [hidden email] (dave) wrote:

>Interesting that Icom phase noise would be mentioned . . . a
>few years ago at FD one of the guys brought his then-new IC7000
>to use as the CW station.
>
>We had the antennas arranged such that the two stations (we
>were 2A) could be on one band with no issues. So long as both
>the phone and CW were on 20 all was OK. But when the IC7000
>went to 15 it produced nasty phase noise in the phone station,
>which had stayed on 20.

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