K3WWP's CW Stories

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Bill - KG4FXG

John, Hello again. I wrote you some time ago and informed you that I was moving to a new house. The bad news is that no antennas are allowed in the neighborhood. Actually, just about all neighborhoods ranging from $80,000 - $500,000 have these CCR's. No one is exempt. Unless you can afford an acre or more, you will have these neighborhood associations and CCR's.

I had the new house built with several PVC pipes in the wall from the downstairs shack room to the attic. The hole in the wall has a plate just like an outlet. I also have an upstairs shack too! The antenna wire runs through the ceiling of the bedroom closet to the attic up there.

I have several antennas in the attic, an 80 meter dipole, 40 meter dipole, and a Carolina Windom 80 shorty. They all work great. Except for the Windom, the others are homebrew antennas.

Here is the best part. I finished building a Elecraft K1 rig last week. I was a little worried about performance from the attic antennas. I must have logged 10 QSO's all from different states this weekend. And the band was terrible with QSB. Just think when the band is good what I can do!

Please note that all contacts are made using CW. I only operate CW and do so by choice. I can't speak about what the results would be like using phone.

The K1 kit was wonderful. I am still new to kit building and have no background in electronics. I had managed to finish an OHR-500 kit a few weeks before and send it off for alignment. The K1 aligned so easy I wish now I had tried to do the OHR myself.

I am still amazed, attic dipoles and K1 and so much fun. I hope it works as well in the camping in the mountains for Field Day.

I need to update my webpage with photos of what I am doing. I guess I don't want to hear any more hams complain about CCR's. They are a hindrance, but they can't stop me from making contacts.

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