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To the people who are actually operating K3s on the air, please keep those reports coming on the Elecraft reflector - I'm reading every one of them as I'm considering whether or not I should purchase a K3 - I must admit the report about being able to copy cw as a single signal in crowded conditions sure has peaked my interest! - tnx & 72 - Bruce. -ps- of course what's happening to the Cdn dollar is helping too :-)) 72/73 - Bruce ve5rc/ve5qrp - QRP-C#1, QRP-L#886, A1 Operator QRP-Canada - http://www.qrp-canada.com -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 15766 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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It has actually "piqued" your interest, but either way, you're interested,
and that's good. :-) I did some side-by-side tests with my K2 and K3 tonight and made a couple interesting observations. 1) Both receivers did a similar job on weak signals. I'm sure the K3 is better by the numbers but it's hard to find the exact signal on the air to demonstrate that. I found when a signal faded to unreadable on the K2 it was also unreadable on the K3 and vice-versa. 2) The K3 has more volume available. There were times at Field Day last year that I was running full volume on the K2, what with visitors making a racket and the generator running. (Actually the most distracting thing about the generator was the smell. We ran biodiesel and it smelled like french fries all weekend. Mmmmm.... French fries....). Where was I? Oh, yeah, the K3 can be cranked up louder. 3) When I disconnect the antenna from the K2 I get a lot of hiss. When I disconnect the antenna from the K3 it goes silent. Which leads to my next point... 4) The S-meter on the K2 sat at about S3 when listening to a weak signal. The S-meter on the K3 generally sat at S0 and bounced around in the S2 or S3 range when my target signal was transmitting. Finally, this probably won't happen every time you have a problem with your K3, but a couple days ago I reported that I was losing most of the audio when I cranked the filter bandwidth below 350 hz, and today version 1.34 of the MCU software was announced and the problem is gone. So, a) that's pretty cool, and b) the software to download and install the update to the K3 is idiot-proof (unless part of your idiocy is that you're not running Windows -- but even then, OSX and Linux clients are in the works). Craig NZ0R K3/100 #25 K2/100 #4941 K1 #1966 KX1 #1499 -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of rattray Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:32 PM To: Elecraft Subject: [Elecraft] K3 To the people who are actually operating K3s on the air, please keep those reports coming on the Elecraft reflector - I'm reading every one of them as I'm considering whether or not I should purchase a K3 - I must admit the report about being able to copy cw as a single signal in crowded conditions sure has peaked my interest! - tnx & 72 - Bruce. -ps- of course what's happening to the Cdn dollar is helping too :-)) 72/73 - Bruce ve5rc/ve5qrp - QRP-C#1, QRP-L#886, A1 Operator QRP-Canada - http://www.qrp-canada.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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Thanks for the info. On the K2 side of things, concerning the audio, if
you have the DSP, you can dial in some gain, and that seems to help the audio issue quite a bit. - David Wilburn [hidden email] K4DGW K2 S/N 5982 On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 23:28 -0600, Craig Rairdin wrote: > It has actually "piqued" your interest, but either way, you're interested, > and that's good. :-) > > I did some side-by-side tests with my K2 and K3 tonight and made a couple > interesting observations. > > 1) Both receivers did a similar job on weak signals. I'm sure the K3 is > better by the numbers but it's hard to find the exact signal on the air to > demonstrate that. I found when a signal faded to unreadable on the K2 it was > also unreadable on the K3 and vice-versa. > > 2) The K3 has more volume available. There were times at Field Day last year > that I was running full volume on the K2, what with visitors making a racket > and the generator running. (Actually the most distracting thing about the > generator was the smell. We ran biodiesel and it smelled like french fries > all weekend. Mmmmm.... French fries....). Where was I? Oh, yeah, the K3 can > be cranked up louder. > > 3) When I disconnect the antenna from the K2 I get a lot of hiss. When I > disconnect the antenna from the K3 it goes silent. Which leads to my next > point... > > 4) The S-meter on the K2 sat at about S3 when listening to a weak signal. > The S-meter on the K3 generally sat at S0 and bounced around in the S2 or S3 > range when my target signal was transmitting. > > Finally, this probably won't happen every time you have a problem with your > K3, but a couple days ago I reported that I was losing most of the audio > when I cranked the filter bandwidth below 350 hz, and today version 1.34 of > the MCU software was announced and the problem is gone. So, a) that's pretty > cool, and b) the software to download and install the update to the K3 is > idiot-proof (unless part of your idiocy is that you're not running Windows > -- but even then, OSX and Linux clients are in the works). > > Craig > NZ0R > K3/100 #25 > K2/100 #4941 > K1 #1966 > KX1 #1499 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [hidden email] > [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of rattray > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:32 PM > To: Elecraft > Subject: [Elecraft] K3 > > > > To the people who are actually operating K3s on the air, please keep those > reports coming on the Elecraft reflector - I'm reading every one of them as > I'm considering whether or not I should purchase a K3 - I must admit the > report about being able to copy cw as a single signal in crowded conditions > sure has peaked my interest! - tnx & 72 - Bruce. -ps- of course what's > happening to the Cdn dollar is helping too :-)) > > 72/73 - Bruce ve5rc/ve5qrp - QRP-C#1, QRP-L#886, A1 Operator > QRP-Canada - http://www.qrp-canada.com > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [hidden email] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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