Posted by
Merv Schweigert on
Jun 08, 2011; 10:59pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/OT-K9YC-s-Serial-Cable-question-tp6450273p6455798.html
This morning just after sunrise setting here drinking my coffee,
(Molokai grown coffee that is) I had the K3 on and of course
the P3. It was a little early for 17 meters to be open, but
suddenly noticed a blip on the P3 way up the band, when I
mean way up the band, I mean out of the CW portion where
I work 99 percent of the time, I quickly tuned the K3 to freq
and there was VU2NKS calling CQ on RTTY, I just hit the
mode button and keyed the paddle and had VU2 in the log
for a "new" one on 17, as I signed with him there was
another blip on the P3 down a few KHZ, there was A65BR
calling CQ, again a quick rattle of the paddle and he was in
the log.
I have come to depend on the P3 more than any DX cluster I
have used since clusters were originated. It shows me what is on the
band without having to sit here concentrating on spinning the
dial and manually checking. An insignificant blip can mean
some juicy DX long before any one on the cluster has put it
out and all the "cluster suckers" start calling. Its an excellent
tool for a DX chaser.
Since I am not a real RTTY operator either, I dont have to
fire up a RTTY program on the computer, all I had to do
was use the paddle for these short fast DX contacts. Works
very well.
Another interesting thing was when I checked VU2NKS info for
his QSL route he is running a K3 also.
I just had to mention this as seems a large number of the list
inhabitants are more prone to frequent the list than use the
radio on the air, try it sometime, you may find you like it
even more with use than with talking about it.
Oh yes all I have for HF antennas is a 80 meter dipole fed with
ladder line to a Nye tuner, accounts for 311 DXCC countries
with that wire now in a couple years.
Happy hunting, thanks "E" for a couple of nice pieces of gear
that are a real asset to this DXer.
73 Merv K9FD/KH6
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