When I bought the k3 in 09 I went all out and bought most of the accessories to go with it. One of these was the sub Rx and a full matching set of crystals for it. As upgrades happened I did them all and wasn't using the Sub Rx in diversity so much but, the advantage of the Sub Rx was always there with flexibility I take for granted.
So I upgrade to the K3s and migrated the sub Rx to it as well. I just don't think of diversity much but that was one of the reasons I bought the Sub Rx in the first place. With the 3 dB loss going to Diversity, I just listened more with the main receiver and let it go from there. So today I'm working a ve7 on 10M and the band is going out. I can hear him but it's at that marginal iffy point, I was missing characters in his CW. I have a HI-Z triangular & a circle 8 pair of Rx antennas. The Circle 8 rocks on the low bands, has a filter to cut out above 40M but the triangular has no such filter and I often hear better on it than on the the roof mounted tribander. So for fun, I used diversity and the triangular on the sub, 160 sloper for the Tx antenna & Voilà, I heard him so much better, finished the Q and that reminded me of the real advantage of diversity and why it is an asset. So now it's tonight, I see 3C0L is still on the air at around 3AM their time, on 20M. They're heading home today and the low band antenna is packed up already. What troupers to still be in the game at this point. But I digress... So here they are, I don't have a good antenna for 20M, have to use the 160M antenna or tribander. RFI from the neighbors makes the tribander useless so I hear them on the sloper and can hear them on the Hi-Z Triangular a bit better but much QSB so remembering the success with the VE7 earlier I go Diversity & all of a sudden, solid Q5 copy, no QSB and I snagged them on 20 CW. Diversity really made the difference. I bought the K3s because it had such excellent specs, nothing else to me came close, save for 1-2 radios that in 09 were hot and cost more than a new car. And they weren't any better in practicality than the K3 was. I bought the Sub Rx for the diversity and now today, while the K3s is itself stellar in all the right ways, it is an a better product with the Sub Rx. I'm really honored to have such an incredibly capable radio. Just sayin' 73, Gary KA1J ______________________________________________________________ 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
