[3830] NA Sprint CW K4LY/QRPP QRP

[Hank Greeb]

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 at contesting.com wrote:
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> Message: 10
> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 15:11:56 -0700
> From: webform at b41h.net
> To: 3830 at contesting.com
> Subject: [3830] NA Sprint CW K4LY/QRPP QRP
> Message-ID: <201209092211.q89MBuiF020880 at b41h.net>
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> NA Sprint CW Contest - September
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> Call: K4LY/QRPP
> Operator(s): K4LY
> Station: K4LY/QRPP
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> Class: Single Op QRP
> QTH: SC
> Operating Time (hrs): 2+
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> 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
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> Club:
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> Team:
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> Comments:
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> 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