Topband: Nice QRPP QSO

[Bill Stewart]

Congrats, Gary, on the QRPp QSO. QRP on top band is quite an accomplishment and is a real thrill when it happens. I recently built a 4 coil Meissner osc, from a 1924 QST. It uses a C-301A ('24 vintage) tube at about 4 watts input...and probably about 1.5 out. I strung up a 160m Windom at 30-35 feet...thot it would be a dummy load...but so far I've worked about 5 states...and Eddy, VE3CUI and getting pretty good reports. If you hear me down at the low end of 160, pse give me a call.
Have fun...73, Bill K4JYS (NC) 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Smith" <Gary at ka1j.com>
To: topband at contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 2:44:28 AM
Subject: Topband: Nice QRPP QSO

By no means any shadow of a record but I just had a CW QSO on TB with 
N3LCW/QRP in Md & me in CT; about 300 miles apart. The band was 
absent of signals till down at the bottom, there he was calling CQ as 
a QRP so I switched the amp off, turned the K3 down to 5W and got A 
599. a bit later I dropped it to 100mW and got a 559 from his K2.

Kind of amazing there aren't more people on 160, it's definitely 
alive. 100mW... nice!

Gary
KA1J/QRPp
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