I didn't mention I had to cut it short(bout 10 minutes) because my ancient
straight
key came off it's mounts right in the middle of sending!! Needless to say I was
not calm. I managed to aligator clip out a final signal, reporting my trouble
and
wishing my contact 73 :)
Dan wrote:
> Just made my first contact with my little tentec 1320 qrp rig!!!! I
> realigned it the other day knowing that I must be transmitting off of what my
> receive was since I was not making any contacts,,, and sure enough now it's
> fixed ! Heard ww7x in tucson arizona at about 6:30 pm pst and gave him a
> call.
> He came right back with a rst of 549 :)) VFO drift was creating a bit of a
> problem and each time I adjusted I worried that I'd lose him. The vfo coil is
> sealed in wax but I guess things had to warm up so to speak. My output was
> right at about 2 watts as read on the ohr meter and his output was 90. He had
> no trouble copying. Sorry all, just had to share my joy a bit :) Pretty
> happy
> with my 2 watts at a few hundred miles :)) (I'm outside Visalia Ca, south of
> Fresno)
>
> 73
> Dan
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