Been looking for a small profile 100w all band rig for field use, and found a local ham with a Yaesu FT-100D that he only used for CW ops. Picked it up for $300 and it really sounds great, and I've gotten great signal and voice reports tonight in spite of static crashes from nearby storms and lousy band conditions on 40m. Been running it off of my home brew 40m Double Bazooka tonight just to get a feel around the menu system.
I had a QSO with a guy in Detroit for about 45 minutes about QRP, and we talked on 40m at 1 watt...just for grins & giggles.
Only did thta for a minute or so, but it proved it could be done with good antennas in bad conditions.
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I had a QSO with a guy in Detroit for about 45 minutes about QRP, and we talked on 40m at 1 watt...just for grins & giggles.
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