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Edward A. Dauer

Re: QRP with the KX3

Did it today: KMPW (thousand miles per watt) - from /2 in Bellport NY to
UY6IM in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 10M CW. Google Earth says it¹s 5001.19
miles. KX3 running on batteries hence limited to 5 watts; antenna an
indoor dipole strung between second floor bedroom doorknobs. Others have
done orders of magnitude better, but the first one¹s a kick anyway. Great
rig; wonderful receiver; love it.

Ted, KN1CBR

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jh3sif

Re: QRP with the KX3

Congratulations, Ted. Excellent job with the indoor antenna.
I have worked 6W2SC from Japan through long path on 14/18 CW and VP2MRV through short path on 14 CW with my KX3 5W and 2 element cubical quad.
KX3 is excellent in QRP. More than that is it can pick up weak signals with strong signals nearby.

73 de JH3SIF, Keith

2014/03/03 11:48、Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> のメール：

> Did it today: KMPW (thousand miles per watt) - from /2 in Bellport NY to
> UY6IM in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 10M CW. Google Earth says it¹s 5001.19
> miles. KX3 running on batteries hence limited to 5 watts; antenna an
> indoor dipole strung between second floor bedroom doorknobs. Others have
> done orders of magnitude better, but the first one¹s a kick anyway. Great
> rig; wonderful receiver; love it.
>
> Ted, KN1CBR
>
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Sean Wall

Re: QRP with the KX3

Wow, Ted! That's awesome. Can't wait to try my KX3.

73, Sean KK4YPE

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Keith Onishi <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Congratulations, Ted. Excellent job with the indoor antenna.
> I have worked 6W2SC from Japan through long path on 14/18 CW and VP2MRV
> through short path on 14 CW with my KX3 5W and 2 element cubical quad.
> KX3 is excellent in QRP. More than that is it can pick up weak signals
> with strong signals nearby.
>
> 73 de JH3SIF, Keith
>
> 2014/03/03 11:48、Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> のメール：
>
> > Did it today: KMPW (thousand miles per watt) - from /2 in Bellport NY to
> > UY6IM in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 10M CW. Google Earth says it¹s 5001.19
> > miles. KX3 running on batteries hence limited to 5 watts; antenna an
> > indoor dipole strung between second floor bedroom doorknobs. Others have
> > done orders of magnitude better, but the first one¹s a kick anyway.
> Great
> > rig; wonderful receiver; love it.
> >
> > Ted, KN1CBR
> >
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Matt Zilmer-3

Re: QRP with the KX3

Excellent! And it will just keep getting better as you get more used
to QRP operation.

In Summer 2012, I was out back dabbling around using the KX3 at 100 mW
CW on a dipole at 30 feet, calling CQ on and off at 10106 KHz. Heard
a weak signal reply, and cranked up the AF gain into the headphones.
Worked a QRP backpacker station in western PA from SoCal. Turns out I
was on her calling frequency and she was just finished setting up. And
she was using a KX3 running 250 mW!

2115 miles on 100 mW is 21,150 MPW one way, the other was 8,460 MPW.
Others here have similar stories, and none of this is extraordinary.

QRP takes competence, patience, and persistance, but it can be very
rewarding.

73,
matt W6NIA

On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:09:29 -0500, you wrote:

>Wow, Ted! That's awesome. Can't wait to try my KX3.
>
>73, Sean KK4YPE
>
>
>
>
>On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Keith Onishi <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations, Ted. Excellent job with the indoor antenna.
>> I have worked 6W2SC from Japan through long path on 14/18 CW and VP2MRV
>> through short path on 14 CW with my KX3 5W and 2 element cubical quad.
>> KX3 is excellent in QRP. More than that is it can pick up weak signals
>> with strong signals nearby.
>>
>> 73 de JH3SIF, Keith
>>
>> 2014/03/03 11:48?Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> ?????
>>
>> > Did it today: KMPW (thousand miles per watt) - from /2 in Bellport NY to
>> > UY6IM in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 10M CW. Google Earth says it¹s 5001.19
>> > miles. KX3 running on batteries hence limited to 5 watts; antenna an
>> > indoor dipole strung between second floor bedroom doorknobs. Others have
>> > done orders of magnitude better, but the first one¹s a kick anyway.
>> Great
>> > rig; wonderful receiver; love it.
>> >
>> > Ted, KN1CBR
>> >
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Fred Smith-2

Re: QRP with the KX3

Had mine over a year and it still amazes me at the contacts I make all of
them phone BTW. Hope to be on Digital sometime this year.

I think the only piece of Elecraft gear I do not own now is the amp/Hi-Power
Tuner for the KX3. All I can say is "YES" to Elecraft and many "THANKS"

73,
Fred/N0AZZ
K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 5210--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
P3/SVGA--KAT500--W2
Amps Elecraft KPA500 HF/6m--Alpha's 9500 HF--87A HF--Mirage B-5030-G
300+w--(2) B-5016-G's 165w 2m

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email]
[mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Matt Zilmer
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 9:31 AM
To: Sean Wall
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] QRP with the KX3

Excellent! And it will just keep getting better as you get more used to QRP
operation.

In Summer 2012, I was out back dabbling around using the KX3 at 100 mW CW on
a dipole at 30 feet, calling CQ on and off at 10106 KHz. Heard a weak
signal reply, and cranked up the AF gain into the headphones.
Worked a QRP backpacker station in western PA from SoCal. Turns out I was
on her calling frequency and she was just finished setting up. And she was
using a KX3 running 250 mW!

2115 miles on 100 mW is 21,150 MPW one way, the other was 8,460 MPW.
Others here have similar stories, and none of this is extraordinary.

QRP takes competence, patience, and persistance, but it can be very
rewarding.

73,
matt W6NIA

On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:09:29 -0500, you wrote:

quad.

>> KX3 is excellent in QRP. More than that is it can pick up weak
>> signals with strong signals nearby.
>>
>> 73 de JH3SIF, Keith
>>
>> 2014/03/03 11:48?Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> ?????
>>
>> > Did it today: KMPW (thousand miles per watt) - from /2 in Bellport
>> > NY to UY6IM in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 10M CW. Google Earth says it¹s
>> > 5001.19 miles. KX3 running on batteries hence limited to 5 watts;
>> > antenna an indoor dipole strung between second floor bedroom
>> > doorknobs. Others have done orders of magnitude better, but the first

one¹s a kick anyway.

>> Great
>> > rig; wonderful receiver; love it.
>> >
>> > Ted, KN1CBR
>> >
>> > ______________________________________________________________
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Matt Zilmer, W6NIA
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Lee Stephens

Re: QRP with the KX3

In reply to this post by Edward A. Dauer

My KX3 #3462 still amazes me as well. This weekends ARRL DX SSB
contest was a blast. Working with 5-10 watts depending on the band
and a piece of 14ga wire in an apartment, I managed to pull in 114 DX
contacts from KY equating to 48 DXCC Entities. While 15 of them were
our Caribbean neighbors most of my contacts were EU. I'd say half of
them were at 5 watts. My personal best for SSB is VK2WWV at 9477.2
miles on 5 watts and for JT65 VK6OX at 11,190.6 miles at 5
watts...both on 10 meters. My record for PSK31 was FR5HA on 20 meters
at 9783.1 miles at 5 watts.

I was amazed at how easy I could receive in the mess that 10 meters
was this weekend. It seemed like everyone was 1.5khz apart from
28.300 all the way past 28.900...but the KX3 handled it super well.
With the 100 watt amp I'm sure I could have made atleast 500
contacts...I just couldn't get people to get my full call a lot of
times...especially the Serbians and then later the JA's, VK's and
well..anything in Asia.

KX3# 3462 ....3438 contacts logged at 10 watts or less and still going
strong,

73

Lee Stephens
KK4JSJ

On Monday 03/03/2014 at 10:47 am, Fred Smith wrote:

> Had mine over a year and it still amazes me at the contacts I make all
> of
> them phone BTW. Hope to be on Digital sometime this year.
>
> I think the only piece of Elecraft gear I do not own now is the
> amp/Hi-Power
> Tuner for the KX3. All I can say is "YES" to Elecraft and many
> "THANKS"
>
>
> 73,
> Fred/N0AZZ
> K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 5210--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
> P3/SVGA--KAT500--W2
> Amps Elecraft KPA500 HF/6m--Alpha's 9500 HF--87A HF--Mirage B-5030-G
> 300+w--(2) B-5016-G's 165w 2m
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Matt Zilmer
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 9:31 AM
> To: Sean Wall
> Cc: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] QRP with the KX3
>
> Excellent! And it will just keep getting better as you get more used
> to QRP
> operation.
>
> In Summer 2012, I was out back dabbling around using the KX3 at 100 mW
> CW on
> a dipole at 30 feet, calling CQ on and off at 10106 KHz. Heard a weak
> signal reply, and cranked up the AF gain into the headphones.
> Worked a QRP backpacker station in western PA from SoCal. Turns out I
> was
> on her calling frequency and she was just finished setting up. And she
> was
> using a KX3 running 250 mW!
>
> 2115 miles on 100 mW is 21,150 MPW one way, the other was 8,460 MPW.
> Others here have similar stories, and none of this is extraordinary.
>
> QRP takes competence, patience, and persistance, but it can be very
> rewarding.
>
> 73,
> matt W6NIA
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:09:29 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>
>> Wow, Ted! That's awesome. Can't wait to try my KX3.
>>
>> 73, Sean KK4YPE
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Keith Onishi <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Congratulations, Ted. Excellent job with the indoor antenna.
>>> I have worked 6W2SC from Japan through long path on 14/18 CW and
>>> VP2MRV through short path on 14 CW with my KX3 5W and 2 element
>>> cubical
> quad.
>>
>>>
>>> KX3 is excellent in QRP. More than that is it can pick up weak
>>> signals with strong signals nearby.
>>>
>>> 73 de JH3SIF, Keith
>>>
>>> 2014/03/03 11:48?Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> ?????
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Did it today: KMPW (thousand miles per watt) - from /2 in Bellport
>>>> NY to UY6IM in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 10M CW. Google Earth says it¹s
>>>> 5001.19 miles. KX3 running on batteries hence limited to 5 watts;
>>>> antenna an indoor dipole strung between second floor bedroom
>>>> doorknobs. Others have done orders of magnitude better, but the first
> one¹s a kick anyway.
>>
>>>
>>> Great
>>>>
>>>> rig; wonderful receiver; love it.
>>>>
>>>> Ted, KN1CBR
>>>>
>>>> ______________________________________________________________
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>>>
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Dominic Baines-3

Re: QRP with the KX3

In reply to this post by Fred Smith-2

If you want to hear how a KX3 and qrp sounds when DX ... I'm qrv from C5
as C5/M1KTA local sun rise and sun set from the beach with a vertical
dipole, working NA no problem, SSB and CW.

72

Dom
C5/M1KTA

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Dave Barr-2

Re: QRP with the KX3

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Can't resist the brag...

My best qrp is VK2KM on 20 meter RTTY Long Path with one watt (he has an
amazing yagi), but the prize so far should go to WA2DKJ who worked C6
(1100+ miles from Northern NJ) on CW with his K2 at 1 milliwatt, using
calibrated attenuators and measured with an HP power meter. That's
better than a million miles per watt. The qso was not easy, but it was
completed.

Dave, K2YG
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