Not too shabby.\u00c2\u00a0 After 6.0 hours of operation, 270 Q’s in the log.\u00c2\u00a0 Not much in the Western US, but have CA and AZ.\u00c2\u00a0 Spent the first 30 minutes S&P, then a couple of short runs, another stretch of S&P, and then a nice steady run.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing fabulous, but the Inv-L is playing much better than is has in the past.<\/p>\n
Early in the evening, the K9AY was the best on RX.\u00c2\u00a0 The QRN has slowly been tapering off, so RX on the Inv-L is better.\u00c2\u00a0 The K9AY still has the edge – when it happens to be pointing in the correct direction.<\/p>\n
Blew two fuses in the power line to the K2.\u00c2\u00a0 Both blew when switching the RX antenna during xmit.\u00c2\u00a0 Must be causing a voltage spike.\u00c2\u00a0 Solution:\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t Do That!<\/p>\n
So far the anecdotal evidence indicates I’m being heard better with the changes to the TX antenna.\u00c2\u00a0 Gonna save looking at the RBN spots for Sunday.<\/p>\n
Back to the salt mine….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Not too shabby.\u00c2 After 6.0 hours of operation, 270 Q’s in the log.\u00c2 Not much in the Western US, but have CA and AZ.\u00c2 Spent the first 30 minutes S&P, then a couple of short runs, another stretch of S&P, and then a nice steady run.\u00c2 Nothing fabulous, but the Inv-L is playing much better than is has in the past.<\/p>\n
Early in the evening, the K9AY was the best on RX.\u00c2 The QRN has slowly been tapering off, so RX on the Inv-L is better.\u00c2 The K9AY still has the edge – when it happens to be pointing in the correct direction.<\/p>\n
Blew two fuses in the power line to the K2.\u00c2 Both blew when switching the RX antenna during xmit.\u00c2 Must be causing a voltage spike.\u00c2 Solution:\u00c2 Don’t Do That!<\/p>\n
So far the anecdotal evidence indicates I’m being heard better with the changes to the TX antenna.\u00c2 Gonna save looking at the RBN spots for Sunday.<\/p>\n
Back to the salt mine….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}