Re: just 500W ?
Posted by
Rick Dettinger-3 on
Jan 25, 2011; 8:42pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/just-500W-tp5960032p5960402.html
I know the feeling! I was fooling around sending into a cantenna with
my HW 100. This was in the early 1970's, and I thought that a
resistor inside a grounded metal can would not let any signal out! It
was a major surprise, to say the least, when someone came back to me.
Only about a mile away, but this was my first QRP contact. The next
was still 25 years in the future.
Rick Dettinger
K7MW
>
> 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!
>
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
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