Just finished building my K3

[Don Rasmussen]

>>> 1. Don't drink while putting this kit together. without realizing, I
ended up getting pretty drunk during the course of assembly just sipping on
beer.  Mistakes can and will happen when you're tired AND drunk. <<<

Agreed - That's the down side. On the plus side, if you attach the ground clip from your antistatic mat to the beer can, this will ensure you are always grounded (given proper to generous consumption rates).

As they say, one can never be too well grounded. ;-)

I completed my new K3 last Monday and was in such an excited hurry I forgot to drink alltogether. But somehow everything came together and I have made hundreds of QSO's, including this weekend in the ARRL DX CW contest. The signals are very strong to JA, BD, KH and even though I only have the 2.7 roofing filter that comes with the K3, performance is 100%.

Contacts are with DX and Alaska/Hawaii only, report is RST and state for US stations, RST and power for the Dx.

[Elecraft] Just finished building my K3
James Sarte kc2uee at gmail.com
Sat Feb 21 14:10:15 EST 2009


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[K2QI]

Don,

My beer cans were large, but not well grounded...

I have the 2.7k filter for both receivers; didn't bother with the 2.8's, and
so far no complaints.

I ordered matched filters for diversity and all 5 pole filters were -.73
with no deviation.  (sweet)  

Now I just have to figure out if I can adjust filters for the sub with the
main controls instead of having to go into the SUB-B menu.

I really wish I had some chocolate though... craving chocolate now.

Woohoo, thpppt, and 73,
James "too tired to type yet too wired to stay coherent any longer" Sarte

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>>> 1. Don't drink while putting this kit together. without realizing, I
ended up getting pretty drunk during the course of assembly just sipping on
beer.  Mistakes can and will happen when you're tired AND drunk. <<<

Agreed - That's the down side. On the plus side, if you attach the ground
clip from your antistatic mat to the beer can, this will ensure you are
always grounded (given proper to generous consumption rates).

As they say, one can never be too well grounded. ;-)

I completed my new K3 last Monday and was in such an excited hurry I forgot
to drink alltogether. But somehow everything came together and I have made
hundreds of QSO's, including this weekend in the ARRL DX CW contest. The
signals are very strong to JA, BD, KH and even though I only have the 2.7
roofing filter that comes with the K3, performance is 100%.

Contacts are with DX and Alaska/Hawaii only, report is RST and state for US
stations, RST and power for the Dx.



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[Richard Ferch]

James Sarte wrote:

> Now I just have to figure out if I can adjust filters for the sub with the
> main controls instead of having to go into the SUB-B menu.

How about A/B, adjust filters, A/B?

This seems to work here. You can set the filters using the main controls,
then the A/B transfers them to the sub and brings back the original main
settings, frequency and mode.

There is one exception to this (is this a bug or a missing feature?): the
RTTY dual-tone filter. It seems that the only way to have the DTF set
differently on the subRX than on the main is to use BSET. After you set or
clear the DTF in BSET using the DUAL PB button, the change also applies to
the main RX (this does not appear to happen with other filter settings), but
you can reverse it with the DUAL PB button without affecting the subRX, so
you can have DTF on in one VFO and off in the other. However, when you do an
A/B or turn the subRX off, the previous VFO B DTF setting is lost and it
reverts to the same DTF setting as the main RX.

73,
Rich VE3KI
 

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