Yes, some of the stuff posted on the Elecraft reflector is giddy fanaticism
(i.e., the Elecraft mojo threads), but I don't think any of the responses to
Howard's posting so far have been in that category. They've all been pretty
objective and none have berated Howard for expressing his
I'm honestly curious, Howard ... which rig (brand and model number) would you
buy at this moment in time that you consider to be stable and perform better
overall in its price range than the current version of the K3?
73,
Dave AB7E
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From: HowardZ
That's not the problem. The crap I was hearing was often 2 to 3 KHz away, and
from signals no louder than others on the band. On the other hand, I could
slide up within less than 200 Hz of the guys with clean signals (even S9 plus
20 db or louder) and not even know they were there.
Key
Well, I'd bet that a rig with bad clicks overdriving an amplifier could
generate some pretty wide trash. Some of what I heard was so bad, though, that
I half suspect they had bad timing for the T/R relay in the amplifier ...
essentially hot switching the amp.
73,
Dave AB7E
I operated SOSB20 in CQ WPX this past weekend and gave the K3 a pretty good
workout. I made 1300+ contacts but that pales in comparison to the zillions of
times I repetitively hit the F1 key. My wife and I have been building our own
home the past few years and we still don't have the air
Actually, I discovered that you CAN adjust the RIT while in transmit. You just
can't see the frequency offset on the display while you turn the knob, but it
does change and the display accurately updates when you finish transmitting. I
found I was able to rather easily estimate how far the
--Original Mail--
From: wayne burdick n...@elecraft.com
To: xda...@cis-broadband.com,
elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:04:04 -0700
Subject: Re: CQ Contest
Hi, Wayne.
Well, I knew about the Dual Passband capability but to tell the truth, I didn't
really know how
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