[TenTec] QRP CONTESTING..... SORRY

[K3GHH]

No need to apologize, Rick --- we enjoyed it!

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-- John K3GHH

On 10/29/17 22:19, rick at dj0ip.de wrote:
> I meant to send that reply only to Jim.
> Didn't mean to SPAM the group.
> 73
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> rick at dj0ip.de
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2017 11:16 PM
> To: k9yc at arrl.net; 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] QRP CONTESTING
>
> That is great.  Didn't know you were also into QRP.
> The K3S is probably the best radio going right now.
> I can't afford one (and stay married).
>
> Besides, without the ability to put up good antennas, there's no sense in
> spending a lot of money on a radio.
>
> Unfortunately all I can put up here is one single wet string.  Landlord
> won't let me put up any more antennas and the 40 degree slope we live on
> prohibits me from putting up a Spiderbeam on a push-up mast.
>
> It is quite amazing what one can work with QRP.
> I was into that big time back in the years I was motorbiking (1974 to 1996).
> The old Argonaut 509 was my trusty radio.
>
> My SKY-SDR is on par with the Eagle, receiver wise.
> Its receiver seems to be as good or better than the K3, or so the engineers
> who created it tell me.  They are Ops at LZ9W and have tested it in MM
> environment.
> Of course the ergonomics, like with all other tiny radios, can't come close
> to those of the larger rigs.
>
> I still have an Argonaut 515 and love to use it, but performance wise,
> compared to my SKY-SDR, it's about like comparing a VW Beetle to a Porsche
> Carrera.
>
> I've sent my two SKY-SDR radios (SN 000 and 001) back to Bulgaria to the
> factory to get the latest hardware updates.  They have promised at least one
> of them back in time for WW CW.
>
> We will soon bring out a tiny matching 40w amp (similar to the old Ten-Tec
> 405 but much smaller), and a matching ATU.
>
> Sales are slow, but picking up.
> I signed up a reseller in the UK a month ago and just recently one in
> Australia.
> Scott would like to sell them in the states, but we don't want to go thru
> the hassle and cost of FCC Type Approval.
>
> Bedtime here.
> 73
> Rick
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2017 9:36 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] QRP CONTESTING
>
> On 10/29/2017 12:25 PM, rick at dj0ip.de wrote:
>> I am now at the other end of the scale:  contesting QRP.
>> I am using my own brand of radio, the "Aerial-51, Model SKY-SDR".
> Forgot to respond to this. For the last 3-4 years, all of my ARRL DX and
> CQWW DX operation has been QRP with my K3s. Last I looked, I have nearly
> 170 countries worked QRP, with more than 100 on both 20M and 15M, and I
> think 90 on 10M. I'm doing this with good antennas, not wet strings. :)
> Because WPX is far less east-coast centric, I run legal limit and put in
> serious SO2R efforts on all three modes, using our club's call, KU6W.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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