Topband: Nice QRPP QSO

[mikefurrey at att.net]

That sounds fun ... I have a knight kit station I may try ... an Ocean 
Hopper and the Knight Broadcaster adjusted to slide up to 160, watt or so on 
160 AM. That would be ridiculous. I use that Broadcaster each year in my 
physics and engineering classes when my students build crystal radios ... 
hmmmm .... slide the crystal radios up to 160. I could only hope for a Q 
with someone in the neighborhood.

73, Mike WA5POK

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bill Stewart
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 7:42 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Nice QRPP QSO


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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