Re: [Elecraft] A good DX session with the new K3

2010-03-19 Thread lstavenhagen
Oh yeah, this is already turning out to be heaven for me on my K2 as well. On my K2 the VFO A and B switches are right next to each other and work a lot like on the TS-830 with external VFO where I learned about working split. Basically I just find the DX first. I'll use the lid going "UP LID" o

[Elecraft] A good DX session with the new K3

2010-03-19 Thread John Harper
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