K-3s ROCK. Doing a single band 40 Meter effort here in New Mexico. First night yielded more than 500 Qs and 91 DXCC entities. Outstanding performance. With some luck with mults from EU and AF I may make DXCC in one weekend. One BA station gave me a report of 5W. He sent an E-mail to me saying he is using an FT-817. So, you are correct, Fred, the K-3 RX does well.
And the TX works quite well also. First call response through the unruly mob to the New Guinea station. Lots of fun near sunrise this morning working central European Russian stations via long path over the South Pacific. Milt, N5IA -----Original Message----- From: Fred Jensen Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 4:09 PM To: elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] barefoot K3 in ARRL CW On 2/19/2011 2:55 PM, Tony Estep wrote: > Well, it looked a little bleak for a while. I was stuck on 99 for a couple > of hours, but the ole K3 and the wire-in-a-tree finally pulled it out and > made 24-hour DXCC in the ARRL CW. Love this radio. I made a logging > boo-boo > and worked Hungary twice, so I had 101 QSOs, but that's not the K3's > fault. Congratulations! The only downside to my K3 is that I seem to hear a LOT better than many stations. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
