I was a WRTC 2014 volunteer responsible for overseeing 4 different stations. Of the 8 radios at these stations, 6 were K3s. Before the contest started, we did have a significant issue with phase noise interference from one of the K3s on 15M when that station was beaming toward the adjacent station (also receiving on a K3). The interference made 15M unusable at the adjacent station. When we tested with the non-K3 from the same location with the same beam heading, the phase noise was not a significant problem. If we reduced the K3 output to 30 watts, there was no problem. Fortunately, we were able to change out the original K3 with another K3 and that significantly reduced the problem.
I have used my K3 at a 160M multi-op station and recognzie how important it is to properly set up the AGC parameters to allow two radios to be on the same band. Since we were able to resolve the problem to the competitors satisfaction, I didn't probe any further into the setting of the K3s. Gerry, W1GD -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/WRTC-2014-Congratulations-Elecraft-tp7591534p7591723.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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
