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Dave Hachadorian

Fw: [CQ-Contest] WRTC final scores

The link below shows which radios were used by WRTC participants.
There was certainly a preponderance of K3's.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Big Bear Lake, CA

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From: "Igor Booklan SRR" <[hidden email]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:27 AM
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Subject: [CQ-Contest] WRTC final scores

> Guys,
>
> We've just opened a link to WRTC-2010 final scores
>
> http://www.wrtc2010.ru/?id=75
>
> 73, Harry RA3AUU
>
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Joe Subich, W4TV-4

Re: Fw: [CQ-Contest] WRTC final scores

20 of the 48 teams and three of the top 10 were 100% Elecraft.
Another five teams were 50% Elecraft. More than half of all
transceivers in use for WRTC were K3s ...

For a product as "new" as the K3 that is an amazing accomplishment.
The next most popular transceiver (five teams) was the FT-1000MP -
a 10+ year old product.

73,

... Joe, W4TV

On 7/14/2010 2:19 PM, Dave Hachadorian wrote:

> The link below shows which radios were used by WRTC participants.
> There was certainly a preponderance of K3's.
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Big Bear Lake, CA
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Igor Booklan SRR"<[hidden email]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:27 AM
> To:<[hidden email]>
> Cc:<[hidden email]>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] WRTC final scores
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> We've just opened a link to WRTC-2010 final scores
>>
>> http://www.wrtc2010.ru/?id=75
>>
>> 73, Harry RA3AUU
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
>
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Jim Brown-10

Re: Fw: [CQ-Contest] WRTC final scores

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On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:19:14 -0700, Dave Hachadorian wrote:

>he link below shows which radios were used by WRTC participants.
>There was certainly a preponderance of K3's.

Yes, but there is (at least) one very interesting side story that I
learned by watching the online video of the closing ceremonies (almost
the only thing worthwhile -- it was lousy quality and mostly VERY
boring). OE3DIA/OE6MBG started with two K3s, but both were put out of
business by lightning. An FT857 was quickly subbed for one radio, and
within a short while, another FT857 was found. They worked the contest
with the 857s, and placed #37. W6OAT should be able to shed some light
on this -- Rusty was their referee!

73, Jim K9YC

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Rick Tavan N6XI

Re: Fw: [CQ-Contest] WRTC final scores

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You betcha, Dave! Remember the old commercial line for Dial soap, "Aren't
you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did?" Well, that's how I
felt about our K3s at WRTC. I was confident that I wasn't generating
significant phase noise, key clicks, mixer products, harmonics and other
crud. I was delighted that I could operate very close to S9+60 neighbors.
(Our closest was N6TV/N2IC, also using K3s.) And occasionally I got grossed
out by clicks, lousy audio and too-loud harmonics from other participants.

The K3 was the dominant radio at WRTC (over 50% of rigs in use) for at least
three reasons:

1. Many participants had already chosen the K3 as their home rig and
there was no reason not to bring it. This is probably the main reason.
2. This was essentially Field Day via airliner with today's draconian
luggage restrictions. Some people who didn't have K3s may have borrowed or
acquired them to save packing weight and volume. They may become converts as
a result.
3. Some people may have borrowed or acquired K3s to take advantage of
their strong signal capabilities in the hostile RF environment of WRTC. More
potential converts.

Elecraft can be justifiably proud of creating the contest rig of choice in
our day.

I don't have any more skinny on the lightning damage to the Austrians' K3s,
but the storm was pretty ferocious and could have damaged any radio. It was
quite localized, with some stations off the air for 10-40 minutes but most
able to stay on throughout. I was half expecting our referee to call
time-out based on a central edict - that was the advance plan - but it
didn't happen. I was also ready to pull the plugs myself if the storm got
any closer to us. But fortunately K6XX and I got through it with no worse
interruption than having to request a few extra repeats due to electrical
and acoustic noise.

/Rick N6XI

On 7/14/10, Dave Hachadorian <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> The link below shows which radios were used by WRTC participants.
> There was certainly a preponderance of K3's.
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Big Bear Lake, CA
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Igor Booklan SRR" <[hidden email]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:27 AM
> To: <[hidden email]>
> Cc: <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] WRTC final scores
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > We've just opened a link to WRTC-2010 final scores
> >
> > http://www.wrtc2010.ru/?id=75
> >
> > 73, Harry RA3AUU
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > CQ-Contest mailing list
> > [hidden email]
> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
>
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Rick Tavan N6XI
Truckee, CA
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