PVRC contest club members have known this very useful fact for quite a few years now. Our 3A North Carolina field day group (N4C this year) goes to 100% K3 on HF bands for field day so that we can have both CW and SSB going on the same band. We never hear the other TX on the band. Not even a little keyed hiss. Just plain NOTHING heard from the other TX on the band. We do take precaution to minimize coupling between two antennas on the same band. Don't want to burn anything up.
M/M, M/2, M/S experience in many contests also return like results. Light, portable, relatively minimal power use, extremely remearkably clean TX signal, everyone now knows how to use K3's and is familiar with the front panel. There's always enough K3's available, including a spare or two just in case. What's not to like. Not conjecture. Not KoolAid. Heading toward a decade of experiential proof from pedal to the metal contesting. Stainless steel plain indisputable facts. We're now waiting to see just how close we can get two 3A syn K3's, K3S, side by side on CW on the same band. That would be the typical run and S/P two operator & K3 complement per band in major multi TX setups. CQWWDX contests this fall will tell the story. This is where the improvements are not at all theoretical and have direct bearing on successful operations. Maybe doesn't apply to the ham who only uses the radio to talk to Uncle Elmer on 75m at 10 pm on 75m SSB. Crush it to the wall WFO contest operators are another story. Like NASCAR drivers doing things to tires Aunt Matilda would never do with her Ford Falcon. Big difference is that I can't afford NASCAR grade cars, but I CAN afford a K3. 73, Guy K2AV On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:54 AM, <ae...@carolinaheli.com> wrote: > The illuminating facts are that the K3/S is selected because multiple radios > operating in a close area don't interfere where other brands apparently do. ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
