[Elecraft] K3 occurance

[Bob Locher]

I am a K3 field tester. Yesterday morning I had an interesting situation.

I live half a mile from a serious SSB DX'er. I am a CW DX'er.  We both 
use Bencher Skyhawks, and each antenna can easily see the other.

I was tuning 20 CW, and Rich came on on 20SSB. He is presently using a 
Kenwood TX480 because he can easily remote it. There was some sort of 
contest on, and Rich was making a few contacts. I talked to him later; 
he was running his Alpha at 1500 watts out, and had his antenna pointed 
right over me.

Every time Rich started transmitting, my noise level went from S0 to 
about S5, the noise being a sort of hash, clearly the synthesizer in his 
TX480.

But that was all I heard! I never heard any sign at all of his SSB! It 
simply wasn't there. Earlier, when Rich came on and I was using my K2, 
he pretty much made the band unusable.

This was very interesting - and pleasing to me. The K3 handled his 
signals with aplomb. The problem I had yesterday was strictly due to the 
broadband noise transmitted by his TX480.

Since Rich has ordered a K3, I am looking forward to a purely peaceful 
coexistence.

73

Bob Locher W9KNI