Super K3

[Chuck Guenther]

Did it ever occur to you that the folks who kept the bands hopping for
48 hours might enjoy a rest?  Maybe spend some time with their families,
watch the Winter Olympics on TV, go for a walk, etc.?

Even though I was only a casual participant in the contest on a single band,
I enjoyed the respite.  There's always tomorrow!

73,
Chuck  NI0C
K2, K3


"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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[Ignacy]

On Sunday I worked tons of JA, and was called by VK and ZS. A hell for me broke after I called CQ on 40m at 2300. Many stations calling on identical frequency and with same signal strength. Diversity with Beverage did not help as all the stations were EU.

I demand a new upgrade from Elecraft. A built in call collector for stations separated by 10 Hz! Should work with QRN.

Ignacy  

[Dick Dievendorff]

I had a similar experience at W7RN when running EU. Things improved  
when I turned the RF gain down, AF gain up, AFC off, audio limiter set  
well below the threshold of pain. The AGC was tending to make all the  
signals the same level. Turning it off helped me a bunch. For most of  
the contest I left it on, I just turned it off during the run periods  
when there were enough callers that I was having trouble quickly  
pulling out one complete call at a time.

Nice problem to have. I spent a good part of the contest turning the  
knob or CQing for the few stations we could find that were new.

I had a blast. We used K3s with two 4 square RX antenna arrays and K3  
diversity. 160 was magic for us.

Duck, K6KR


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On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Ignacy <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> On Sunday I worked tons of JA, and was called by VK and ZS. A hell  
> for me
> broke after I called CQ on 40m at 2300. Many stations calling on  
> identical
> frequency and with same signal strength. Diversity with Beverage did  
> not
> help as all the stations were EU.
>
> I demand a new upgrade from Elecraft. A built in call collector for  
> stations
> separated by 10 Hz! Should work with QRN.
>
> Ignacy
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