The past 24 hours have been eye-opening - I've worked more *rare* DX in a single day ever outside of a major contest. Just picked up V88HTL (Brunei) on 30 meters for an all-time new one, plus a bunch of good stuff yesterday afternoon. Antenna in all cases is an 80m dipole fed with 450-ohm ladder line & used on all bands.
Fot 10 years, I spotted DX "by ear", not having a spot function on my rig. I eventually got thru and managed to log the DX but what's different now is having the ability with the K3's spot function to get dead-on the proper freq that the DX is currently listening on. The brevity (2 or 3 calls only) of time spent in pile-ups now has convinced me that I was wrong before when I thought I was on the right freq. Details are at http://www.ae5x.com/blog/?p=2618 but suffice it to say that I'm getting attached to this rig... John Harper AE5X ______________________________________________________________ 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
