Hi Jim and Dave,
What fun watching you two talk. I hear 17 Meters is not bad and is coming to life. I have not been on in a while.
My what a lot of rigs you have Jim! KX-3 is a complicated beauty.. but I have no interest there.
The K2¡¯s are a more standard rig (you were creating a contest setup?). At least you KNOW what the guts are.
I am going to build something basic and run with it. Wes Hayword W7ZOI (He¡¯s 81 now) have been talking and there are but few that have built something like what he is using on EMRFD pages 6.37 and following. This is the Blue rig on his website..
The SST is a neat rig too.. It is fun going back to basic operation, simply tuning around and listening then making a call.
I hope you and your families are well! Dave and I email often.. he¡¯s a champ in my eyes!
73
Guy
PS.. Jim, if you ever want to surplus one of your K2¡¯s let me know!
Guy Mengel
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On Nov 6, 2020, at 2:23 AM, AL7FS-Jim.Larsen <jimlarsen2@...> wrote:
Where are you located, Dave? I am too lazy to look you up. :-) If you are in the PNW, there is a chance on 20 meters. Mostly I run my Kenwood TS-570D. I recently took my two K2s, my Omni VI+ and my big rig (I can never remember what it is) out of the lineup. :-) I actually have three K2s but that's another story. Ah...just remembered...Icom IC-756 Pro. My rotators are tango uniform and my 20 meter beam is aimed about at Chicago but it seems to work okay. It is just a KLM KT-34A up 40 feet.
One of these days I will get my Elecraft KX-3 hooked up. When I bought it (used), I put an antenna tuner in it but then never figured out how to make it work. Gave up. :-) One of these days I will have to read the manual. How's that for genius thinking?
Somewhere I have a 20 meter SST. That would be fun to try again, too.
Take care.
73, Jim, AL7FS
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:20 PM David KK7SS <d3j452@...> wrote:
Hi Jim,
I would just love to qso with you... just waiting for propagation to improve and to get my code back up to at least 10-12 wpm.
My antenna is a ground mounted trap vertical.. About 15 years ago I made a 5W contact with Beijing on 10M ..
I can hear the northern VE7's on 40M in the mornings, but my trap dipole is only 12 ft off the ground (neighbors!}
'Dig" your QRP+ out anyway.. make sure it's still functioning :-)
We might make it on 20M..
73 de
Dave G. KK7SS
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:15 PM AL7FS-Jim.Larsen <jimlarsen2@...> wrote:
If you would just fix the propagation from Alaska for me I would dig out my QRP+ and put a fresh battery in it. Mine does not put out much power so I don't or haven't run it much in the last five plus years.
Jim, AL7FS
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 7:10 PM David KK7SS <d3j452@...> wrote:
The more I play with this rig, the better I like it!
It helps to read the (sparse) manual...
Just found out I can switch between SSB and CW Duh !
Guy Mengel N1GMM