Sub-rx or P3?
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Make my vote for the KRX3.
After living for years with a TS850 and literally wearing the label off of the TF-SET button, having the second receiver is wonderful. Being able to listen to the DX on his frequency in one ear and the pileup on the TX frequency in the other, and being able to adjust the level of the two individually or with the "balance" control is a valuable tool for timing calls... Us little pistols with 500w and a tribander at 40 feet rely on call timing. If I had bigger antennas, a taller tower and legal limit output, maybe the P3 would be a wash with the KRX3, but here at "Whiskey Four Little Tower", the second receiver wins hands down. The second advantage of the KRX3 is diversity receive. I often put my main receiver on my tribander and the second receiver on a vertical. Diversity helps manage quite a lot of fade, especially those deep Asiatic Russia CW signals that travel through the Auroral Circle, always a problem here in Florida with a high angle of incidence antenna like I have at 40 feet. You can hear which polarization is winning by listening to where the signal ends up in the stereo image (tribander on the left, vertical on the right, the winning polarization is the strongest in your head). Some may not like this effect (I do!). The third is being able to search for multipliers in a contest environment on the second receiver between calling CQ on the main. This helped me do a Sweeep in SS SSB for the first time in 32 years of entering the contest (I dont use the cluster for SS). Its kind of like "SO 1.5 R"! You can actually listen on two different bands if you use the AUX RF input on the KRX3 and have separate antennas. In deference to those "visual" people, especially all my Icom owning friends, I find working split stations with my club's IC7700 (no second receiver, but with a pan display) and Pro 2's (hard to use Dual Watch feature) primitive compared with using my K3 with the KRX3 on the same antennas at the club. The IC7700 is like going back to the TS-850, with me madly punching the XFC button. At least Icom was smart and didnt print the label on the button! Its much easier on a 7800 with its second receiver, but then you can buy two K3's and two P3's for the price of one of those (If you have a sturdy enough table to put it on and have two people to help you lift it out of the shipping crate as Icom recommends in the manual!!!) . There is no substitute, in my opinion, for actually HEARING the pileup. However, a P3 is on my Christmas List :) Lu Romero - W4LT Tampa FL K3 # 3192 ------------------------------- Message: 35 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 04:30:06 -0600 From: "John Harper" <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] Sub-rx or P3? To: [hidden email] Message-ID: <f4adc05ae667228e679ced50fa05fb1a.squirrel@http://www.ae5x.com> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Just curious about opinions of CW DXers/contesters here on the list regarding these two options - which is likely to make the most impact on effectiveness? "Both" is not currently an option ;-) John Harper AE5X http://www.ae5x.com/blog ______________________________________________________________ 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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>Us little pistols with 500w and a
>tribander at 40 feet rely on call timing. Lu, if you're a little pistol with that set-up, I'm a Daisy Red Ryder! Thanks for the helpful info from all who replied. A strong case for the 2nd receiver...what I suspected anyway as it seems to offer both the 2-VFO monitoring in addition to diversity capability. Thanks again, John AE5X http://www.ae5x.com/blog ______________________________________________________________ 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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>>Us little pistols with 500w and a
>>tribander at 40 feet rely on call timing. >Lu, if you're a little pistol with that set-up, I'm a Daisy Red Ryder! >Thanks for the helpful info from all who replied. A strong case for the 2nd receiver...what I suspected anyway as it seems to offer both >the 2-VFO monitoring in addition to diversity capability. >Thanks again, >John AE5X . and I'm a Lilliputian. 73, Fred, AE6IC, K3 2241(1RX), P3 100 " Do or Do-not. There is no 'Try'..." ~ Yoda ______________________________________________________________ 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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