[Elecraft] K3 and CW SS

[Craig Rairdin]

Well I've worked a few of you so far in SS on the K3 including Vic K2VCO and
Craig AC0DS. I'm pretty sure that conveys some kind of blessing upon you.
:-)

It's pretty cool to be scanning down the band, hear a CQ SS, hit the SPOT
button and the radio just instantly zero-beats. I haven't looked yet to see
if there's a way to move the receiver without moving the transmitter.
Sometimes people answering my CQ's are far, far, off frequency and it's nice
to RIT them into the filter bandwidth at least.

One of the things I've noticed is that the rig runs cooler than the K2. With
the K2 if I spend an hour or two calling CQ I can hear that little fan wind
up and the heat sink gets warm. The K3 is just lightly blowing cool air out
the back and you'd never know it if you didn't put your hand back there.

The other thing that's odd that I never noticed with the K2 is there's
something about the sidetone and the QSK that tricks me. I'll punch a
function key in WriteLog to reply to a caller and my brain hears my signal
and thinks it's someone else calling the same guy. I don't know if that
means the QSK operation is smoother or I'm just tired.

Hey there's Craig AC0DS calling CQ on 80m. He just showed up on the
frequency I'm sitting on while I type this email. Too bad I've already
worked him. :-)

Craig
NZ0R
K3/100 #25