wow that is amazing!
Barb [log in to unmask]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:50 PM
Subject: CW QRP


> Don,
> Another experience I had, and your apartment dwelling and high line noise
> reminded me of this, is running low power and running CW.  Back in 76 and
> 77, my wife and I were barely making a living.  There was no money for
much
> ham gear.  I literally saved pop bottles and cans, back then you could get
> money for bottles, and saved up 40 dollars.  I purchased a friend's HW7 he
> built.  I still had a 14AVQ vertical in the back yard on a post which I
> purchased almost new from a CB operator who thought the vertical would
work
> on the 11 meter band.  I had to run 100 feet of coax to it to reach the
> vertical the way the duplex and backyard were situated.  The HW7 worked
40,
> 20 and 15 meters.  15 meters wasn't open all the time back then either.
In
> 18 months, running 2.5 watts on 40, 2 watts on 20, and about 1.5 watts on
15
> meters, I made over 600 contacts.  I worked all 50 states and 14
countries.
> As I said, 15 wasn't opened much but when it was, I worked Japan and just
> about anything I could hear.  I rag chewed on 20 CW for two hours, at
times,
> with other CW operators.  I worked both Alaska and Hawaii on 40 meters,
too.
> It was some of the funnist hamming I have ever done.  I doubt I would have
> done as well on side band running that low of power and the ground mounted
> vertical.
>
> Phil,
> k0nx