Maybe you don't need the sub-reciever Phil, but I have one and I use it a lot.
Here is what I do. When I am working split, I tune the DX with the main receiver then push the A>B button to get the same frequency into the sub-receiver and press sub. I adjust the volume on the sub and then when I determine as much as I can about where he is listening from him, the jerks on his frequency and the cluster I go looking for a spot to call with the main receiver. I can listen to my transmit frequency to be sure there is not a QSO on it while I listen to the DX and make my calls. If the propagation is right and I am lucky, sometimes I can find where the DX is working and get a little advantage. Sometimes when I am monitoring a dead band, like ten or six I sit one receiver on the SSB calling frequency and one on the CW calling frequency. The sub-receiver must not be essential because a lot of us were using K3s before it was available. But I sure like to have the sub-receiver and use it a lot. Ancient Age is no excuse. I am 69 years young and been licensed since 1956. My first rig was a BC-455 Command Receiver and a home brew 6AG7/6BQ6 transmitter that ran 35 watts input and maybe 20 watts output as guessed with a 40 watt light bulb about half brilliance. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ ________________________________ From: Phil Hystad <k7...@comcast.net> To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wed, November 18, 2009 11:23:06 AM Subject: [Elecraft] Newbie Questions for K3...subreceiver module Gang, Thanks for all the great e-mails and answers to my first round of K3 questions. Lots of good information and advice. I do have a few more questions but I will limit these of one question at a time. Several people have advised to get the sub-receiver option. Now, this really puts me on the fence as I have a sub-receiver in my Icom Pro III and I almost never use it. Actually, I have never used it in an actual QSO, I have merely played with it from time to time. So, my first question is, "Why do I want a sub-receiver?"... Maybe a little about my background helps. I got into ham radio as a novice (WN7ECQ) back in the mid-1960s. Ham radio was very rudimentary back then with CW mode only, a transmitter and a few crystals, but a very good receiver (Hammarlund, HQ-170AC). Then, after the Novice one-year license expired I let the hobby go silent for 38 years. I was relicensed and back on the air in February/March 2004 with a used Icom 756 transceiver. But, my operating style reflects a lot of my Novice experience rooted in the technology and practices of the 1960s. Mostly CW, some SSB for some of the evening nets and other stuff when the band is hot and a periodically scheduled SSB QSO with some of my ham friends from back in those 1960 days. Not much of a contester but I very much like the technology aspect, experimentation, SDR, and so on. And, I am always looking to do new things that capture my interest. So, I may be missing out on a huge corner of this hobby by not even knowing how someone makes use of a sub-receiver. Thus, my question. 73, phil, K7PEH ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
