Super K3

[George Rebong]

I had my best Q's on CW DX contest using K3 and Wintest this week end. EU and other parts of the world are finally heard and worked using my K3. If was a lot of FUN.
George KE6TE
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[The Smiths]

CW DX was both amazing and fun!  The world opened up, and the K3 brought great joy in being able to not only hear them all, but work them all!  There wasn't a call that I heard I couldn't get a report back from! 24 hours of the day I checked in, and it was always the same thing.  Calls I hadn't heard in YEARS all answering me on my little doublet antenna!

Yet, at 0000Z time on Sunday the band droped out as if a nuclear bomb had hit the entire world.  What is wrong with Ham radio when we only know how to enjoy our hobby when there's a contest?

At 0001z I sent a repeated CQ CQ CQ, it took till 0014z before someone 500 miles from me finally answered it. Yet 14 minutes before that I was hearing Cuba, Ireland, the South Pacific and Finland all within 10KC of my CQ calling freq.

What an utter shame...Man, Ham radio really needs a good kick in the butt!

 

 


 

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> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:05:04 -0800
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> I had my best Q's on CW DX contest using K3 and Wintest this week end. EU and other parts of the world are finally heard and worked using my K3. If was a lot of FUN.
> George KE6TE
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[PD2R]

And yet people still complain about contests...
IMHO, if it weren't for contesting the bands would be real quiet.

By the way, it is not my goal to make this into a "contesting yes or no"
tread.

I'm doing my best to learn code so hopefully I can join the fun next year
;-)

73, Maarten
PD2R

2010/2/22 The Smiths <[hidden email]>

>
>
> CW DX was both amazing and fun!  The world opened up, and the K3 brought
> great joy in being able to not only hear them all, but work them all!  There
> wasn't a call that I heard I couldn't get a report back from! 24 hours of
> the day I checked in, and it was always the same thing.  Calls I hadn't
> heard in YEARS all answering me on my little doublet antenna!
>
> Yet, at 0000Z time on Sunday the band droped out as if a nuclear bomb had
> hit the entire world.  What is wrong with Ham radio when we only know how to
> enjoy our hobby when there's a contest?
>
> At 0001z I sent a repeated CQ CQ CQ, it took till 0014z before someone 500
> miles from me finally answered it. Yet 14 minutes before that I was hearing
> Cuba, Ireland, the South Pacific and Finland all within 10KC of my CQ
> calling freq.
>
> What an utter shame...Man, Ham radio really needs a good kick in the butt!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > From: [hidden email]
> > To: [hidden email]
> > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:05:04 -0800
> > Subject: [Elecraft] Super K3
>  >
> > I had my best Q's on CW DX contest using K3 and Wintest this week end. EU
> and other parts of the world are finally heard and worked using my K3. If
> was a lot of FUN.
> > George KE6TE
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[N5GE]

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:28:40 +0100, Maarten van Rossum
<[hidden email]> wrote:

Here's a screen shot of the 20m band at one time during the CW
contest.  It indicates to me that there is no place to hide if you're
a CW operator and want to have a rag chew on 20m.

http://n5ge.com/Images/Public/20m%20CW%20Contest.bmp

I don't actively participate in contests, but I do watch the cluster
for spots of countries I haven't worked.  When I'm not doing that I
retreat to the WARC bands where contests are not allowed.

The saddest thing about contests is that they have reduced the number
of hams who actually rag chew and enjoy it.  However we here in the
USA enjoy the freedom to practice our hobby as we wish, and so it
should be.  

Those of you who weren't hams when you had to do the Novice thing
haven't experienced a fully utilized Novice portion of a band.  If you
didn't have a CW filter it was hard to make a contact that lasted very
long.

73,

Tom, N5GE

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>And yet people still complain about contests...
>IMHO, if it weren't for contesting the bands would be real quiet.
>
>By the way, it is not my goal to make this into a "contesting yes or no"
>tread.
>
>I'm doing my best to learn code so hopefully I can join the fun next year
>;-)
>
>73, Maarten
>PD2R
>

[snip]

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[Alan Bloom]

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:19 -0600, Radio Amateur N5GE wrote:
...
> Those of you who weren't hams when you had to do the Novice thing
> haven't experienced a fully utilized Novice portion of a band.  If you
> didn't have a CW filter it was hard to make a contact that lasted very
> long.

I dunno, I used to make lots of contacts with my trusty Knight Kit Star
Roamer.  That thing was a real joke of a receiver.  The entire novice
band was about 1/8 inch wide on the dial.  You had to tune reeeeeely
carefully.  The selectivity was broad as a barn door, which was actually
a good thing because the receiver never came back to the same frequency
after a transmission so you had to tune around to find the station you
were working.

"And I had to walk two miles in the snow to school every morning..."

Al N1AL


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[Terry Schieler]

Yep.  The "broad as a barn door" reciever thing was a great feature in those days since we were crystal controlled transmit and had no idea where on the Novice band the reply to our CQ would come from.

W0FM

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Bloom [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 11:43 AM
To: [hidden email]
Cc: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Super K3

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:19 -0600, Radio Amateur N5GE wrote:
...
> Those of you who weren't hams when you had to do the Novice thing
> haven't experienced a fully utilized Novice portion of a band.  If you
> didn't have a CW filter it was hard to make a contact that lasted very
> long.

I dunno, I used to make lots of contacts with my trusty Knight Kit Star
Roamer.  That thing was a real joke of a receiver.  The entire novice
band was about 1/8 inch wide on the dial.  You had to tune reeeeeely
carefully.  The selectivity was broad as a barn door, which was actually
a good thing because the receiver never came back to the same frequency
after a transmission so you had to tune around to find the station you
were working.

"And I had to walk two miles in the snow to school every morning..."

Al N1AL





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[Dunc Carter - W5DC]

My novice operations spanned the first summer that I had a license,
1954.  I had a 25 watt crystal controlled homebrew transmitter which I
couldn't get to work on 40 because it was neutralized with a twisted
wire capacitor and a Hallicrafters S40B receiver, which was definitely
in the  "broad as a barn door" category.  I could receive almost the
whole 80 meter novice band which was fine in the daytime.  I could hear
past 20 KHz so I didn't miss much.  On the other hand, reception at
night was impossible.  On the day that I passed the General at the FCC
office, I also bought a neutralizing capacitor from Radio Parts at 807
Howard Avenue in New Orleans, which gave the transmitter's 826 triode
final stable enough neutralization to work 40.  Shortly thereafter, I
bought a used HRO-50T which had a five position crystal filter.

Heaven!

Dunc, W5DC


Terry Schieler wrote:

> Yep.  The "broad as a barn door" reciever thing was a great feature in those days since we were crystal controlled transmit and had no idea where on the Novice band the reply to our CQ would come from.
>
> W0FM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Bloom [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 11:43 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Cc: Elecraft Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Super K3
>
> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:19 -0600, Radio Amateur N5GE wrote:
> ...
>  
>> Those of you who weren't hams when you had to do the Novice thing
>> haven't experienced a fully utilized Novice portion of a band.  If you
>> didn't have a CW filter it was hard to make a contact that lasted very
>> long.
>>    
>
> I dunno, I used to make lots of contacts with my trusty Knight Kit Star
> Roamer.  That thing was a real joke of a receiver.  The entire novice
> band was about 1/8 inch wide on the dial.  You had to tune reeeeeely
> carefully.  The selectivity was broad as a barn door, which was actually
> a good thing because the receiver never came back to the same frequency
> after a transmission so you had to tune around to find the station you
> were working.
>
> "And I had to walk two miles in the snow to school every morning..."
>
> Al N1AL
>
>
>
>
>
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[Doug Turnbull]

Dunc,
    Everything is relative and boy can I appreciate your joy with the old
HRO.   There was a good bit to be said for the Novice Class license.   I
remember in 1960 operating with a military surplus RBG2 (Super Pro) and TCS
crystal controlled in my case tank transmitter.   My father(later WA4GHS),
when I was age 13 and just back from Boy Scouts Camp  gave me his old
Hallicrafters S38 originally purchased to listen to the Irish Short Wave
Station which never came to be.   I used the S38 till age 15 and sold it and
along with money from selling doughnuts door to door and some baby sitting
money purchased the RGB 2 with the help of K4GHS who also lent me the TCS.
Later there were a few home brew rigs and NBFM to get on phone.   Those were
good days.   By age seventeen I had a Drake 2B which took all of a summers
work to purchase.   Now it is a K3!   Life is still good even if the joints
are stiff.
           73 Doug EI2CN ex KN4WQZ


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[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

Doug,

It has been said that climbing towers keeps the joints in good shape :-)

First licensed in 1946 when a young boy, callsign VQ8AK, Rx a TRF with regen
detector, Tx a 6L6 - 807, both homebrewed on breadboards "borrowed" from my
Mother ( I did ask her)!

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD


Doug Turnbull wrote:

> Life is still good even if the joints are stiff.


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