Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
Elecraft didn't influence anyone's WRTC rig choice. It's possible some of our customers did. If so, thanks :) Wayne N6KR Lu Romero lrom...@ij.net wrote: Incredibly interesting between-the-lines reading here. http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_SVO.pdf http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_DME.pdf What I find amazing in these lists is... __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
Grin...good comment I used to think I had superior intellect after I got my K3...now it seems they are multiplying at an ever increasing rate in my area...ya think I educated the masses too well? 73's Gary On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote: Elecraft didn't influence anyone's WRTC rig choice. It's possible some of our customers did. If so, thanks :) Wayne N6KR Lu Romero lrom...@ij.net wrote: Incredibly interesting between-the-lines reading here. http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_SVO.pdf http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_DME.pdf What I find amazing in these lists is... __ 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 -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
Are you sure about that Wayne? You designed and produced the transceiver that a great many top contesters think is the BEST AVAILABLE, regardless of price and at the same time kept it small enough to carry on an iron bird and kept the price at an affordable amount. I can't think of any possible more powerful influence. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ From: Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com To: lrom...@ij.net lrom...@ij.net Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Thu, July 15, 2010 2:44:54 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings Elecraft didn't influence anyone's WRTC rig choice. It's possible some of our customers did. If so, thanks :) Wayne N6KR Lu Romero lrom...@ij.net wrote: Incredibly interesting between-the-lines reading here. http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_SVO.pdf http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_DME.pdf What I find amazing in these lists is... __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
While I do love me some Elecraft, what I find most amazing, and motivating, about the WRTC scores are the antennas and power levels they used: http://www.wrtc2010.ru/?id=23 * 20/15/10 m tri-bander with one feed line and PL-259 male connector on 12m tower with antenna rotator and control unit * 40 m Inverted V dipole with feed line and PL-259 male connector * 80 m Inverted V dipole with feed line and PL-259 male connector * 2 x 100 watts peak power monitors with the 80v at about 11m and the 40 at 10m, I assume attached to the same tower. Three to 4 thousand QSO's and 3 to 4 megapoints with 100 watts, one transmitter at a time on a too-low tower? Incredible, motivating, and a bit depressing as it puts paid to a cherished complaint: it's my antennas fault! Byron KI6NUL K1 #2799 wayne burdick wrote: Elecraft didn't influence anyone's WRTC rig choice. It's possible some of our customers did. If so, thanks :) -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-WRTC-Customs-Pro-Forma-listings-tp5295782p5298036.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:03:06 -0400, Lu Romero wrote: But they both showed up with K3's. So did most of the competitors! Why? Two very simple reasons. 1) Anyone who has used one in a multi- transmitter environment, or in a major contest, knows that the K3 has the best behaviour of any available rig in the presence of strong signals in a contesting environment. 2) Its feature set and user interface was strongly influenced by top contesters, including some of those who took their own radios to WRTC. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:44:42 -0700 (PDT), Byron KI6NUL by...@servies.us wrote: I read the rules and equipment available to the operators at the link below. Now that's a real contest and a level playing field! Outstanding! Tom Childers N5GE Antenna 4507 Branchview Drive Arlington, TX 76017 n...@n5ge.com http://www.n5ge.com While I do love me some Elecraft, what I find most amazing, and motivating, about the WRTC scores are the antennas and power levels they used: http://www.wrtc2010.ru/?id=23 [snip] __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
K3LR's, Tim Duffy's, partner(the boss) was the one that specified K3s. But I can't imagine hauling 7800s to Russia. -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-WRTC-Customs-Pro-Forma-listings-tp5295782p5300193.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at 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
[Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
Incredibly interesting between-the-lines reading here. http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_SVO.pdf http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_DME.pdf What I find amazing in these lists is that Scott Robbins, the Ex-Product Manager of the Ten Tec Orion transceiver product line, brought with him, for his personal use... ...An Elecraft K3! That's like Col. Sanders going to Chick-Fil-A for lunch! Or Papa John ordering Pizza Hut for Dinner! And, contesting Jedi and CQ WW Champion Multi Multi station owner Tim Duffy, who operates the defacto NASCAR Factory Team for Icom (complete with Team ICOM uniforms), and who apears in advertisements touting the superior performance of the Icom 7XXX line of transceivers, brought with him for his personal use... ...An Elecraft K3! That's like Dale Ernhardt bringing a Toyota Camry to drive in the Daytona 500! This list is sort of like discovering that Bill Gates uses an Apple Mac Book running OS/X to do Microsoft presentations with! Now, we all know that the invitees to this party could afford to bring *anything* they wanted to bring. Im also sure that any rig manufacturer would have been happy to supply them with anything they wanted, just for the asking... But they both showed up with K3's. So did most of the competitors! Why? Did Eric and Wayne stack the deck by giving away free radios (the *real* reason for the upcoming price increases, right)? But even if I got a free radio, wouldnt I want to use what I am most familiar operating with and had the highest possible performance in this important competition? Could it be because they would have exceeded their baggage weight limit if they brought their usual rig? Or was it because of the tables supplied for the tents had fragile light weight legs that could collapse if loaded with 80lbs of radio? Or maybe because the organizers would not supply trucks to take their radios to the tents... Its a really big field at WRTC, you know. Lugging a 7800 or a 9000 on your back for a kilometer could be life threatening to you and career enhancing for your Chiropractor! The choices these two guys, as well as most of the other competitors, made for their personal WRTC competition rig say alot to me. -lu w4lt (currently/9V1)- __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
The last count I saw had 49 K3's 16 MP's 16 Pro III's and only a tiny scattering of newer Yakencom rigs. One Orion. There would have been 51 K3's but a lightning strike took out a pair, which were replaced on a hair-on-fire emergency basis with a pair of old Kenwoods (850's ?). On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Lu Romero lrom...@ij.net wrote: Incredibly interesting between-the-lines reading here. http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_SVO.pdf http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_DME.pdf What I find amazing in these lists is that Scott Robbins, the Ex-Product Manager of the Ten Tec Orion transceiver product line, brought with him, for his personal use... ...An Elecraft K3! That's like Col. Sanders going to Chick-Fil-A for lunch! Or Papa John ordering Pizza Hut for Dinner! __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 - WRTC Customs Pro Forma listings
I wouldn't be surprised if weight and size had something to do with their choice as well, though. 73, Dave AB7E On 7/14/2010 8:03 PM, Lu Romero wrote: Incredibly interesting between-the-lines reading here. http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_SVO.pdf http://www.wrtc2010.ru/press/R3_license_for_DME.pdf What I find amazing in these lists is that Scott Robbins, the Ex-Product Manager of the Ten Tec Orion transceiver product line, brought with him, for his personal use... ...An Elecraft K3! That's like Col. Sanders going to Chick-Fil-A for lunch! Or Papa John ordering Pizza Hut for Dinner! And, contesting Jedi and CQ WW Champion Multi Multi station owner Tim Duffy, who operates the defacto NASCAR Factory Team for Icom (complete with Team ICOM uniforms), and who apears in advertisements touting the superior performance of the Icom 7XXX line of transceivers, brought with him for his personal use... ...An Elecraft K3! That's like Dale Ernhardt bringing a Toyota Camry to drive in the Daytona 500! This list is sort of like discovering that Bill Gates uses an Apple Mac Book running OS/X to do Microsoft presentations with! Now, we all know that the invitees to this party could afford to bring *anything* they wanted to bring. Im also sure that any rig manufacturer would have been happy to supply them with anything they wanted, just for the asking... But they both showed up with K3's. So did most of the competitors! Why? Did Eric and Wayne stack the deck by giving away free radios (the *real* reason for the upcoming price increases, right)? But even if I got a free radio, wouldnt I want to use what I am most familiar operating with and had the highest possible performance in this important competition? Could it be because they would have exceeded their baggage weight limit if they brought their usual rig? Or was it because of the tables supplied for the tents had fragile light weight legs that could collapse if loaded with 80lbs of radio? Or maybe because the organizers would not supply trucks to take their radios to the tents... Its a really big field at WRTC, you know. Lugging a 7800 or a 9000 on your back for a kilometer could be life threatening to you and career enhancing for your Chiropractor! The choices these two guys, as well as most of the other competitors, made for their personal WRTC competition rig say alot to me. -lu w4lt (currently/9V1)- __ 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
