Hi Steve: I'm a 99% CW operator who generally ducks contests to play on the WARC ands while the "radiosporters" do their thing.
I've managed perhaps a dozen QSOs on my K3 in between tearing it to bits as needed to work on the assembly manuals. In that short time I've found the K3 a rag-chewer's - casual operator's dream in too many ways to describe in one e-mail. But start with a very short "learning curve" to understand the basic operations, nice, easy to use front panel controls, its outstanding technical specifications and great flexibility. And, of course, it has caused me to do a lot more SWL-ing, across the short waves and on the BC band too, with its general coverage capability. It's nice to punch in a station's frequency using the direct entry and have the station come up tuned in perfectly, even for listening to music in SSB mode! The K3 is likely to drag me back into more "phone" operation after several decades of CW, not to mention playing around with digital modes more since it's set up to do multi-mode operating with a minimum of fuss and bother (don't even need a computer connected to it!). As the K3 order backlog gets caught up, I'm looking forward to spending a lot more time just roaming the bands than I have done in a long time. Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
