I have a neighbor who lives about 500 ft away with a new IC-7300. I have told many people the IC-7300 is an interesting radio for $900-1,000, but it ain't no K3! For example, several years ago we had three K3 transceivers on 20m--CW, SSB, and GOTA. They were about 500 feet apart from each other. Unless we tuned within 5-10 kHz from another, we didn't know the other two were on the air until somebody turned of the SSB radio's power supply and the battery ran low (IMD).
OTH, if my neighbor is on 20m or 40m with his barefoot IC-7300, I know it on my K3 (new synthesizers). He's on CW and I'm on SSB--I know he's on. His rig's phase noise covers the entire band! Fortunately, unless I pick the second harmonic, I don't hear him disturb 20m when he's on 40m. While good by itself and not on big antennas, especially during a contest, the IC-7300 will work for many hams. I experienced similar issues with my K3 and an IC-7600 several years ago at a different FD site. This weekend I head to Lubbock with my K3 to operate CW at a 2E station with an IC-7610. We will NOT operate on the same band! I will bring bandpass filters for both radios just in case. Listen for KS5Z, three old friends/farts having a fun, safe weekend. I hope many of you do the same. Good luck in the operating event (not a contest)! 73, Bill, K8TE -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ ______________________________________________________________ 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
