K3 Field Day

[Dan Atchison]

Just my $0.02.

On one of the two K3's we had at FD (NR3X), we used an 80M dipole fed
with 450 ohm ladder line.

Operators could not believe that I terminated the ladder line into a
4:1 balun, then directly into the K3 (KAT3).  Using the internal tuner,
the antenna became a multi-bander without a glitch.  This particular  
rig was used on all bands except 40M CW, in which another K3 was used.

Gotta love it.


Dan -- N3ND
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[Cookie]

I operate fairly often from the museum submarine, USS Cavalla which has a 114 ft long wire fed with a 4:1 unun and 80 feet of Wiremen Super 8 coax.  The ATU in the K3 handles all bands 80 through 10 without a hitch.  I have not tried it on 160 or 6 because the unun I used is sorry enough on 80 and 10.
 Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ




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Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Field Day

Just my $0.02.

On one of the two K3's we had at FD (NR3X), we used an 80M dipole fed
with 450 ohm ladder line.

Operators could not believe that I terminated the ladder line into a
4:1 balun, then directly into the K3 (KAT3).  Using the internal tuner,
the antenna became a multi-bander without a glitch.  This particular 
rig was used on all bands except 40M CW, in which another K3 was used.

Gotta love it.


Dan -- N3ND
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[Jacques Gaudron]

Hi
Exactly what I've been using for a couple of weeks : the balun is a 4 :1
Guanella type described in April 2010 QST. I can tune the set up from 160m
to 10 m.
The ideal system for a lazy old man !
73
Jacques de F9OJ



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Atchison" <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:18 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Field Day

>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> On one of the two K3's we had at FD (NR3X), we used an 80M dipole fed
> with 450 ohm ladder line.
>
> Operators could not believe that I terminated the ladder line into a
> 4:1 balun, then directly into the K3 (KAT3).  Using the internal tuner,
> the antenna became a multi-bander without a glitch.  This particular
> rig was used on all bands except 40M CW, in which another K3 was used.
>
> Gotta love it.
>
>
> Dan -- N3ND
> ______________________________________________________________
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