barefoot K3 in ARRL CW

[Tony Estep]

Well, it looked a little bleak for a while. I was stuck on 99 for a couple
of hours, but the ole K3 and the wire-in-a-tree finally pulled it out and
made 24-hour DXCC in the ARRL CW. Love this radio. I made a logging boo-boo
and worked Hungary twice, so I had 101 QSOs, but that's not the K3's fault.

Tony KT0NY
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[k6dgw]

On 2/19/2011 2:55 PM, Tony Estep wrote:
> Well, it looked a little bleak for a while. I was stuck on 99 for a couple
> of hours, but the ole K3 and the wire-in-a-tree finally pulled it out and
> made 24-hour DXCC in the ARRL CW. Love this radio. I made a logging boo-boo
> and worked Hungary twice, so I had 101 QSOs, but that's not the K3's fault.

Congratulations!  The only downside to my K3 is that I seem to hear a
LOT better than many stations.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org
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[Dunc Carter - W5DC]

I'm operating from a townhouse with a minimal antenna and a barefoot K3
plus a P3 and met my goal of getting to 100 ARRL entities worked on 80
during the test last night despite poor conditions.

Dunc, W5DC

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[Milt -- N5IA]

K-3s ROCK.

Doing a single band 40 Meter effort here in New Mexico.  First night yielded
more than 500 Qs and 91 DXCC entities.  Outstanding performance.  With some
luck with mults from EU and AF I may make DXCC in one weekend.  One BA
station gave me a report of 5W.  He sent an E-mail to me saying he is using
an FT-817.  So, you are correct, Fred, the K-3 RX does well.

And the TX works quite well also.  First call response through the unruly
mob to the New Guinea station.  Lots of fun near sunrise this morning
working central European Russian stations via long path over the South
Pacific.

Milt, N5IA

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Jensen
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 4:09 PM
To: elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] barefoot K3 in ARRL CW

On 2/19/2011 2:55 PM, Tony Estep wrote:
> Well, it looked a little bleak for a while. I was stuck on 99 for a couple
> of hours, but the ole K3 and the wire-in-a-tree finally pulled it out and
> made 24-hour DXCC in the ARRL CW. Love this radio. I made a logging
> boo-boo
> and worked Hungary twice, so I had 101 QSOs, but that's not the K3's
> fault.

Congratulations!  The only downside to my K3 is that I seem to hear a
LOT better than many stations.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011

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[k6dgw]

On 2/19/2011 3:28 PM, Milt -- N5IA wrote:
> K-3s ROCK.
>
> Doing a single band 40 Meter effort here in New Mexico. First night
> yielded more than 500 Qs and 91 DXCC entities. Outstanding performance.
> With some luck with mults from EU and AF I may make DXCC in one weekend.
> One BA station gave me a report of 5W. He sent an E-mail to me saying he
> is using an FT-817. So, you are correct, Fred, the K-3 RX does well.

I'm in this sporadically around other weekend things, including getting
some snow and ice off the back steps.  Having already worked V31RR
earlier, I spent some time playing around with the things I could do to
pick people out of the pileup.  Really cool ... learned a few things.
>
> And the TX works quite well also. First call response through the unruly
> mob to the New Guinea station. Lots of fun near sunrise this morning
> working central European Russian stations via long path over the South
> Pacific.

Despite dire predictions for when all the sun poop was headed our way,
this turned out to be fairly fantastic ... haven't seen 10m open like
that.  I've always had fairly high RX noise on 10, not that it has
mattered much in the last few years, but my K2 and K3 are soooo quiet.

Maybe I'll find you on 40 tonight.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org
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