A good DX session with the new K3

[John Harper AE5X]

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
line & used on all bands.

Fot 10 years, I spotted DX "by ear", not having a spot function on my rig. I
eventually got thru and managed to log the DX but what's different now is
having the ability with the K3's spot function to get dead-on the proper
freq that the DX is currently listening on.

The brevity (2 or 3 calls only) of time spent in pile-ups now has convinced
me that I was wrong before when I thought I was on the right freq. Details
are at http://www.ae5x.com/blog/?p=2618 but suffice it to say that I'm
getting attached to this rig...

John Harper AE5X





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[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" on his TX freq. to find him initially if he's still picking through his pileup and not transmitting. Hit A=B to set both BFO's to that freq, turn on split then start scanning up the band with VFO B (using REV). Once I find the station he's talking to I use spot to center VFO B on him and I'm ready to go.....
I made a few DX contacts during the CQWW contest this way with just my indoor wire and the K2......

You sure can tell our rigs were made by hardcore CW folks, hi hi....

73,
LS
W5QD