Doug, you either need a golden plaque for your effort or need to be
committed to the funny farm for you GRRR8 effort!
Working with my rig cranked down to <5 watts with a "fair to middling"
receiver (Drake TR-5) and a 80 meter inverted V @ 28 ' in the center is
masochistic enough - but a "wide open" transmitter/receiver like you
used deserves congratulations. Reminds me of my first ARRL sweepsteaks,
with ARC-5 receivers for 80 and 40, plus a "BC-453 Q-fiver" which
probably had 6 KHz bandwidth and no opposite sideband rejection. :)
Congrats! Wanna try @ 100 milliwatts in the future? :)
72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time
(But I generally run 4.99 watts and have a "reasonable" receiver!)
On 9/9/2012 6:41 PM, 3830-request@contesting.com wrote:
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 15:11:56 -0700
From: webform@b41h.net
To: 3830@contesting.com
Subject: [3830] NA Sprint CW K4LY/QRPP QRP
Message-ID: <201209092211.q89MBuiF020880@b41h.net>
NA Sprint CW Contest - September
Call: K4LY/QRPP
Operator(s): K4LY
Station: K4LY/QRPP
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: SC
Operating Time (hrs): 2+
Summary:
Band QSOs Op Time
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80:
40: 11 2+
20:
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Total: 11 Mults = 11 Total Score = 121
Club:
Team:
Comments:
Something different! Eleven contacts in 2+ hours with a minimalist trans-ceiver
running 450 mw to a dipole. I was using the Breadboard Splinter (google
it!)which has a direct conversion receiver- receiving both sidebands with
perhaps -6dB at 4 KHz and -60dB at 20 KHz, so receive and transmit were equally
challenging! The Splinter doesn't have break in, ability to use a keyer, or a
user-friendly VXO (requires using a small screwdriver) so usually by the time I
got on someone's frequency, they had left! I used the one finger onboard key
(google it and you'll see) which I'm sorta getting used to. Good ears awards
go to K0RF, N9RV, N2IC, and N6RT all 1200++ miles away who copied the 450 mw!
Each contact was a a rush and a memorable event.
Doug Inman SC
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