Posted by
wayne burdick on
Jan 25, 2011; 8:10pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/just-500W-tp5960032p5960301.html
> The shirt I wear sometimes in the hamfests says up front : "Life is
> too short for QRP"
In stark contrast, the first "rig" I built, when I was 13, was a 200-
milliwatt-output crystal oscillator that used half a dozen parts with
their leads twisted together. No PCB, no solder, no box. It was ugly.
But it worked.
I connected a hand key and a battery in series, paid out a roll of guy
wire and tossed it on the roof, then started listening around the
rig's 40-m frequency with my Hallicrafters SX101. A guy up in Los
Angeles was calling CQ, and when he came back to me, I nearly fell off
my chair. 200 miles on 200 mW, with an unmatched wire laying on the
roof and a 9-V battery!
A few months later someone gave me an HT37 transmitter (100 W). First
thing I did was turn the drive down to nearly zero, measured my output
at 200 mW, and worked New York (2500 miles) on 20 m.
Life's not too short for *that* :)
OTOH, I'm quite proud of our engineering staff's achievement with the
KPA500.
Wayne
N6KR
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