OOPS again, David was a tremendous help with the hamfest/convention table. I got wrapped up in the post on the demo of the K3's selectivity and forgot to mention he volunteered to help and brought his K2 and doggone near every mini-kit Elecraft produces. I think the only Mini-Kit he didn't have was an XG3 and I had one of those there!
Well done David and THANKS! Jim - W0EB > To add to Jim's comments: > > I had my Elecraft equipment set up between the two K3/P3s. On the > table were a K2/QRP, XV40 & 144 (not connected), W1, DL1, Ngen and > AF1. > The minis were all in Dave's plastic cases. I had Rose's carrying > case > for the K2 behind the K2. While most of the attention was > certainly on > the K3s, there were a number of folks who were interested in the > various > solder type kits and lower cost radios. I didn't bring much Rg-58 > with > me, so I just set up a Hendricks QRP random wire tunner with counter > poise starting right behind the table and running up the wall a bit > then > around the corner of the wall. I mostly kept the volume down so > folks > could better hear the K3s but was able to copy some of the activity > on > 20 right along with the big boys. > The event reenforced my desire to build a K1, and KX1 as well as the > rest of the test equipment/minis. Of course KB4WYR has indicated > the > there is a KX3 in HER future, so next year we may will have a wider > range of Elecrafts at the various Kansas area hamfests. > > David > KD0R > > On 8/22/2011 10:08 AM, Jim Sheldon wrote: >> We put on a demo at the KS State ARRL Convention yesterday >> (Sunday the 21st). N3ARU and I had our K3/P3 combo's set up on >> the same table and hooked up to antennas outside the building. >> My antenna was a PAC-12 vertical and his was made out of a >> Hamstick mounted on a tripod. They were spaced approximately 40 >> feet apart and his was around the corner from mine, placing a >> small part of the concrete and steel building between the two. >> >> We were both running 100 watts output with me on CW about 14.040 >> and N3ARU was on SSB around 14.250. I worked KO1U in Haverhill, >> MA during one demo while N3ARU was working another station on >> SSB. There was absolutely no observed interference between the 2 >> K3's. You could see my CW moving the baseline on his P3 and his >> SSB moving mine. That was as expected since the IF takeoff point >> for the P3 is before any serious filtering anyway so it should >> show up. Neither K3 hit us with the RFI indicator even with the >> antennas that close. I believe having that corner of the >> concrete building between them was the reason for that. >> >> Word got out pretty quickly and a while later we had a number of >> people around the table asking for further info. Set it up again >> - Dwight tuned in a medium weak SSB signal on his radio and I >> tuned around on the CW portion of 20 meters. I heard ES1TU (Adu >> in Estonia) calling CQ DX on 14.007 so I called him. Everyone >> was listening to Dwight's radio copying the weak SSB signal and >> never noticed I was working Adu on CW on the same band. The guys >> that were watching me were favorably impressed when ES1TU came >> back to me. He gave me only a 449, and he was only 559. I had >> to have the noise blanker on and set pretty aggressively as the >> ceiling was full of mercury vapor lights! Dwight left his off >> for the demo so we didn't get any intermod caused by the NB. >> >> All in all, it was a very good demonstration of the K3's >> capability to handle very strong, close-in signals. >> >> The other thing that really got attention was the RTTY and PSK-31 >> demonstrations using the CW paddles. Made a few contacts on RTTY >> in the SARTG contest while it was running. There were a number >> of K3 owners that stopped by to say hello and sometimes interject >> their experiences with the K3. Several notables were Nate, N0NB >> and Jim AC0E. Lee, K0WA also stopped by and I had to wipe the >> drool off the P3 (Just kidding Lee). There were a few others >> that I only just met and I apologize for not remembering their >> calls here. >> >> Lisa had sent me a big packet of literature to hand out and there >> are only a very small handful left so I'd call it a successful >> trip for sure. A number of the people that left with the info >> packets mentioned that they had been considering the K3 for a >> while, but were sure glad to be able to get a good demo and some >> hands-on time. >> >> Had one Kenwood TS-5000 owner loudly proclaiming that his rig was >> better until the demo where I worked ES1TU while the weak SSB qso >> was being copied on the other K3. Don'cha just love it when a >> plan comes together? >> >> Jim - W0EB >> Park City, KS >> K3 #5027 >> P3 #983 >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: 1520/3850 - Release Date: >> 08/22/11 >> > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: 1520/3850 - Release Date: > 08/22/11 ______________________________________________________________ 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
