Hello all,
since some time ago I have my K3 assembled, almost a month, and just
yesterday I put it on work during a Portuguese Monument activation under
call CQ0ODX/P. K3 works everyday, however due to severe antenna
restrictions I am not able to test it in a normal antenna situation.
Yesterday I did my operation inside my car and there are a lot to
improve inside it to give me a confortable operation. Maybe using a
portable table will be better, however during rainy time, like
yesterday, it would not the perfect tool to use :) :) .
Despite big lacks of my side, it was my first operation inside my new
car, I was able to do 150 qso's on 30 meters using a 30m dipole. First
configuration was using dipole inverted shape, swr was 1:1, so no need
to use ATU and longest qso was to ZL2IFB, by the way, we started
operation around 8:00 o'clock, maybe a bit later.
K3 worked very nicely, was very easy to operate with and signals were
very easy to listen up. Time to time I needed to use RIT but that was
easy and pleasante too. At same time I used my winkey and again K3 had
no problems.
K3 is very suitable for activations like I did yesterday, its ergnomics
are very friendly and operation is very easy and smoth.
Sadly I did not pictures (I was all the time doing qso's or calling, so
no time for pictures) however CT1CQK and CT1FMX did pictures and films,
later I will give you link for both.
Best 73 and till next email.
CT1DRB
David Quental
K3 #3756
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