Uzbekistan to Japan Elecraft qrp qso

[Gil Stacy-2]

Elecraft products seem to have a worldwide following.
The recent FISTS The Keynote has an interesting account in the East Asia
section regarding a 6000 km qso between Manabu, UK/JI2MED, in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, using his K2 at 5 watts and Shin, JP6VCH, in Japan using his K1
at 3 watts.  The qso lasted 14 minutes and was in English.  Shin was beach
portable using a fishing rod as a 15 meter whip antenna.

73, Gil NN4CW
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[Bekir Kemal Ataman]

Uzbekistan is much nearer to Japan than my location. I've had many QSOs
with Japan using just 7.6 watts (requested) power. During the last IARU HF
contest I've had many contacts with Brazil, too. They were all sounding
very strong and they all heard me very clear. And remember, all this is
done on SSB with a simple 4-band inverted vee antenna and about 45 meters
of RG58 between my K2 and the antenna. If my CW was good enough, I am sure
I could reach further distances.

73!
de TA2RX


At 16:11 -0400 22/7/06, Gil Stacy wrote:
>Elecraft products seem to have a worldwide following.
>The recent FISTS The Keynote has an interesting account in the East Asia
>section regarding a 6000 km qso between Manabu, UK/JI2MED, in Tashkent,
>Uzbekistan, using his K2 at 5 watts and Shin, JP6VCH, in Japan using his K1
>at 3 watts.  The qso lasted 14 minutes and was in English.  Shin was beach
>portable using a fishing rod as a 15 meter whip antenna.
>
>73, Gil NN4CW

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ArchiMac BBS Sysop & Webmaster <http://www.archimac.org/>


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[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy-2]

Ragchewed with John 5Z4JX (N6JW) who is using a K2/100, on July 20 15m SSB.

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD

Gil  NN4CW wrote:

> Elecraft products seem to have a worldwide following.



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