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James Bennett

KX3 FD Operations?

Wondering how many ops on this reflector had a KX3 station running this past weekend in Field Day? I had mine running five watts, along with a PX3, set up on our back patio. Ran a LiFePO4 battery and solar panel, along with a half-sized G5RV in inverted Vee mode, apex up 25 feet.

Conditions weren't great here (25 miles east of Sacramento) but still had fun and the KX3 performed quite well. The bulk of my QSO's were made on 40 and 20 meters. A handful on 15 and four on 80 meters. I listened, but heard ZERO stations on 10 meters either day. Ughhh....

Jim Bennett / W6JHB (1E, SV)
Folsom, CA
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Raymond Sills

Re: KX3 FD Operations?

Yours truly ran his KX3 at 5 watts (battery) feeding an AlexLoop for
antenna. And, it did seem to me that band conditions were not that
good, especially on 20 meters: skip was short and there seemed to be
noise and QSB. I spent most of my time on 40, even though the antenna
is -least- efficient on that band. But it worked well enough to log a
couple dozen QSOs over about 4 or 5 hours of operating time.

My battery was one of the N1RX medical cart batteries, and it did a
fine job. Still have 75% capacity left. I have a bunch of solar
panels, but with the rotten WX... I never used them.

Even with the marginal conditions, it was fun to get on the air. And,
I'm more pleased than ever with my KX3! It would have been nice to
have a PX3, but even without it I did fine. I did use a Ham Central
Terminal for operating and logging. Operating position lighting was
by means of a Biolite PowerLight. Did not need to deploy the "Nano
Grid" extra lights.

73 de Ray
K2ULR
KX3 #211

On Jun 29, 2015, at 8:44 PM, James Bennett wrote:

> Wondering how many ops on this reflector had a KX3 station running
> this past weekend in Field Day? I had mine running five watts, along
> with a PX3, set up on our back patio. Ran a LiFePO4 battery and
> solar panel, along with a half-sized G5RV in inverted Vee mode, apex
> up 25 feet.
>
> Conditions weren't great here (25 miles east of Sacramento) but
> still had fun and the KX3 performed quite well. The bulk of my QSO's
> were made on 40 and 20 meters. A handful on 15 and four on 80
> meters. I listened, but heard ZERO stations on 10 meters either day.
> Ughhh....
>
> Jim Bennett / W6JHB (1E, SV)
> Folsom, CA
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Amy Wilhelm

Re: KX3 FD Operations?

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I set up at a park but I'm afraid I wasn't really up to being out much... And work and plans Saturday interfered, and I hid inside from dry lightning on Sunday after visiting the Seattle ACS setup.

I mostly tuned around 20m, tried SSB and PSK31 a bit but didn't have any luck on either of those. Bands were *crowded* and possibly a magnetic loop isn't the best choice for contesting. 😪 Got one JT65 QSO down, but not for FD.

Given more time (or CW...) I'm sure I could have made a few QSOs but between scheduling and weather I only had about an hour and a half on the air.

-Amy
K3ISI

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> On Jun 29, 2015, at 5:44 PM, James Bennett <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Wondering how many ops on this reflector had a KX3 station running this past weekend in Field Day? I had mine running five watts, along with a PX3, set up on our back patio. Ran a LiFePO4 battery and solar panel, along with a half-sized G5RV in inverted Vee mode, apex up 25 feet.
>
> Conditions weren't great here (25 miles east of Sacramento) but still had fun and the KX3 performed quite well. The bulk of my QSO's were made on 40 and 20 meters. A handful on 15 and four on 80 meters. I listened, but heard ZERO stations on 10 meters either day. Ughhh....
>
> Jim Bennett / W6JHB (1E, SV)
> Folsom, CA
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Arthur Peters

Re: KX3 FD Operations?

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I too ran KX3 and KXPA100 off Bioenno LiFePO4 batteries. Antenna was a 490’ loop
tuned by iCom AH-4 using homebrew interface (powered by LiFEPO4 battery. I logged
142 Q’s on 40,20,15, and10 (SSB, CW, RTTY, and PSK). What an amazing radio! I am
only beginning to scratch the surface of what this rascal can do, but am loving it.
73,

Art
K0ACP (1E, MI)
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> On Jun 29, 2015, at 8:44 PM, James Bennett <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Wondering how many ops on this reflector had a KX3 station running this past weekend in Field Day? I had mine running five watts, along with a PX3, set up on our back patio. Ran a LiFePO4 battery and solar panel, along with a half-sized G5RV in inverted Vee mode, apex up 25 feet.
>
> Conditions weren't great here (25 miles east of Sacramento) but still had fun and the KX3 performed quite well. The bulk of my QSO's were made on 40 and 20 meters. A handful on 15 and four on 80 meters. I listened, but heard ZERO stations on 10 meters either day. Ughhh....
>
> Jim Bennett / W6JHB (1E, SV)
> Folsom, CA
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Scott Simpson

Re: KX3 FD Operations?

Ran my KX3, KXPA100, and PX3 off generator and worked digital on 15 and
20m. Club was 5A. Maybe I'll try to do 5 solar powered QRP contacts next
year to get those bonus points!

scott
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Arthur Peters <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I too ran KX3 and KXPA100 off Bioenno LiFePO4 batteries. Antenna was a
> 490’ loop
> tuned by iCom AH-4 using homebrew interface (powered by LiFEPO4 battery.
> I logged
> 142 Q’s on 40,20,15, and10 (SSB, CW, RTTY, and PSK). What an amazing
> radio! I am
> only beginning to scratch the surface of what this rascal can do, but am
> loving it.
> 73,
>
> Art
> K0ACP (1E, MI)
> [hidden email]
>
> > On Jun 29, 2015, at 8:44 PM, James Bennett <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > Wondering how many ops on this reflector had a KX3 station running this
> past weekend in Field Day? I had mine running five watts, along with a PX3,
> set up on our back patio. Ran a LiFePO4 battery and solar panel, along with
> a half-sized G5RV in inverted Vee mode, apex up 25 feet.
> >
> > Conditions weren't great here (25 miles east of Sacramento) but still
> had fun and the KX3 performed quite well. The bulk of my QSO's were made on
> 40 and 20 meters. A handful on 15 and four on 80 meters. I listened, but
> heard ZERO stations on 10 meters either day. Ughhh....
> >
> > Jim Bennett / W6JHB (1E, SV)
> > Folsom, CA
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Bob N3MNT

Re: KX3 FD Operations?

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Our club ran all Elecraft equipment 4 KX3's and a K3 running 5 watts battery/solar. Did not do as well as last year but still a good wknd.

Rick Tavan N6XI

Re: KX3 FD Operations?

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K7MS was a KX3+KXPA100, the GOTA station alongside 2A K6NV, making about
300 GOTA QSOs, I think all SSB. I was in the main station and wasn't
allowed to use the GOTA station but the GOTA guys were all smiling.

/Rick

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:44 PM, James Bennett <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Wondering how many ops on this reflector had a KX3 station running this
> past weekend in Field Day? I had mine running five watts, along with a PX3,
> set up on our back patio. Ran a LiFePO4 battery and solar panel, along with
> a half-sized G5RV in inverted Vee mode, apex up 25 feet.
>
> Conditions weren't great here (25 miles east of Sacramento) but still had
> fun and the KX3 performed quite well. The bulk of my QSO's were made on 40
> and 20 meters. A handful on 15 and four on 80 meters. I listened, but heard
> ZERO stations on 10 meters either day. Ughhh....
>
> Jim Bennett / W6JHB (1E, SV)
> Folsom, CA
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David Ek-2

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John N0HJ and Steve N0MHQ joined me Saturday afternoon on the deck of
our recently-purchased home in the mountains of Woodland Park, CO to
make a few FD contacts with my KX3. First time I've had the chance to
get on HF since last fall, thanks to all the activities associated with
selling one house and then buying and moving into another. John brought
his pneumatic launcher which did a wonderful job of putting a line over
a tree near the deck and hoisting my half-size G5RV in an inverted V
configuration. I ran the KX3 off a gel cel at about 10W and made mostly
CW contacts but also a few on SSB, all on 20 m. Had a real pipeline to
CA early, but then bagged a few east coast stations later in the day. I
think the three of us (and my wife) spent as much time yakking as we did
operating, but it was a great afternoon. The KX3 was a dream to operate,
although all I did was spin the tuning knob and occasionally tweak the
filter.

73, Dave NK0E

On 6/30/2015 4:38 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
> Wondering how many ops on this reflector had a KX3 station running this past weekend in Field Day? I had mine running five watts, along with a PX3, set up on our back patio. Ran a LiFePO4 battery and solar panel, along with a half-sized G5RV in inverted Vee mode, apex up 25 feet.
>
> Conditions weren't great here (25 miles east of Sacramento) but still had fun and the KX3 performed quite well. The bulk of my QSO's were made on 40 and 20 meters. A handful on 15 and four on 80 meters. I listened, but heard ZERO stations on 10 meters either day. Ughhh....
>
> Jim Bennett / W6JHB (1E, SV)
> Folsom, CA

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