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My K3 got in its 4th Field Day here in Russellville, Arkansas at K5PXP.
I had some issues late into the night when the K3 totally wigged out while we were working 40M. First the CW sidetone went away. A restart fixed it. Then the audio went away, then the rig would stick in transmit with or without indicated power, then the CW messages wouldn't send or would send a couple characters and stop, then the N1MM memories wouldn't key the rig properly, then a couple of those ERR FW1 (or something) messages popped up. I even reloaded the firmware at one point. I noticed Sunday morning after we'd gone back to 20M that the rig was behaving properly. So I assumed it was an RF feedback problem on 40M. After I got back home I checked out the rig on 40 into a dummy load and then on my antenna and everything was normal. So I don't think there's anything wrong with the K3. Wondering if next year I should attach a quarter wave 40M counterpoise to the rig. Funny thing - we were using a center fed 180 foot dipole with ladder line and a Johnson Matchbox. Tuning was broad and I didn't get any RF bites. Maybe it was just being in the near field of the antenna that caused the problem. Those things didn't hold us back much. The CW station made over 1100 Qs, most on 40 and 20 and some on 15. I got good comments on the rig. Before FD I disabled most of my macros and set the bandswitch to skip the WARC bands. I should have disabled the "fast QSY" feature of the RIT. I like that feature but it caused some guys to lose their run frequency a couple times and even caught me once. One thing I'd like to see, possibly as an option. I was using the "repeat" feature of my CQ memory. The need to tap the paddle to stop the next repeat caused me to miss a letter or two of the calling station over half of the time that I initiated QSOs in that way. I'd like the fist dit (or first paddle closure) not to be sent, or have some other way of stopping sending, maybe tapping the memory key again. It would be very cool if the K3 could detect a signal come on in the passband and cancel the next repeat. Even with some false triggers, that would be nice. Our temperature got to 104 degrees - hottest reported temperature in the state. What are the odds of that happening twice in a row? Meanwhile I've got a buddy in Oregon who says they were freezing and blowing smoke, sitting on their hands to keep them warm. Maybe when it's time for an SS report, I'll be talking about the KX3. 73- Nick, WA5BDU ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I used my K3 as the 15M CW/SSB, 80M PSK and 20M PSK station for FD. It was
worked hard and ran flawlessly. I had the K3's PA temperature up to 50C for long periods of time without an issue. We had over 2100 QSO's. 73, John N2HMM ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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This year we operated 3E using 3 K3s. The radios performed flawlessly. The
receivers are amazing. At times we had a CW and SSB station on the same band with only occasional and minimal interference between stations. The antennas were only separated by about 200 ft. Just short of 4200 Qs. A great time was had by all! 73 Gregg W6IZT ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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That's an unbelievable number of Q's, Gregg. You're using base 5, right?
Wayne On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:36 AM, Gregg Marco W6IZT wrote: > This year we operated 3E using 3 K3s. The radios performed > flawlessly. The > receivers are amazing. At times we had a CW and SSB station on the > same band > with only occasional and minimal interference between stations. The > antennas > were only separated by about 200 ft. Just short of 4200 Qs. A great > time was > had by all! > > 73 > Gregg > W6IZT > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Wayne,
I know some of the other hams Gregg worked with at W4NT, all members of the Southeastern DX Club, big-time contesters and DXers. Given the group, I'm surprised they *only* worked 4200 QSOs. :-) --Ian Ian Kahn, KM4IK Roswell, GA EM74ua [hidden email] K3 #281, P3 #688 HRD v5.x/6.0 Test Team On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote: > That's an unbelievable number of Q's, Gregg. You're using base 5, right? > > Wayne > > On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:36 AM, Gregg Marco W6IZT wrote: > > > This year we operated 3E using 3 K3s. The radios performed > > flawlessly. The > > receivers are amazing. At times we had a CW and SSB station on the > > same band > > with only occasional and minimal interference between stations. The > > antennas > > were only separated by about 200 ft. Just short of 4200 Qs. A great > > time was > > had by all! > > > > 73 > > Gregg > > W6IZT > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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