I just completed a cw qso on 80m. Static is running 10 - 20 db over S9
tonight. There is nearly 1000 miles between us and the other station was
using a magnetic loop antenna for transmitting made from 18ft. of copper
pipe, 3ft. above the ground.
Using the K3 under these conditions was rough. I tried every filter and NR
setting and kept having trouble with static pumping the agc and blipping out
letters. AGC fast or slow made no difference. I then switched over to the
LP-PAN which in addition to being a bandscope, functions as my second
receiver. I was able to copy him perfectly with the LP-PAN, even with it's
agc on slow, there is no pumping which seems rather strange to me.
Maybe some adjustment to the agc-slp or agc-thr would help. Any suggestions
for QRN conditions?
Steve Ellington
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