[UK-CONTEST] Different QRP

[Roger Cooke]

Hi.

  I wonder if anybody has a DX record for a QRP QSO using an MFJ antenna analyser?
I was tuning my top band dipole with the MFJ and was told that my radiated signal from it
was S-9 plus 20 db about 3 miles away at a friend's house. Carrying this further, I then managed
to "QSO" another friend about 8 miles way at about S-6, followed closely by yet another with a
signal report of about S-6 around 18 miles away. 

  So, be careful when using your MFJ, you never know who is listening! 

Oh yes, a superb method of keying was simple hand capacitance on the tuning, producing a 

somewhat chirpy note, but readable!  


 Can anybody beat this record?  It reminded me of my leg-pull in the late fifties, when I managed
to give Pat G3IOR a ZL0 on 20m CW by keying my Heathkit GDO, loosely coupled into my end
fed zepp. 

 


Regards from Roger, G3LDI
Swardeston, Norfolk.