[Elecraft] K3 and CQWW

[Timothy.Urban at wc.ey.com]

FYI, I worked CQ WW 2008 (as a pedestrian) with K3 #1278 from Maryland.

Never appreciated how good the K3"s QSK is until I had to turn it off to 
use an outboard amplifier. 

Great receiver, now I just need an antenna higher than 17 ft off the 
ground :)

73

Tim
N5IIT


 



"Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> 
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12/01/2008 01:12 PM

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On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 03:19:52 -0800 (PST), Julian, G4ILO wrote:

>A couple of stations lost out on a point from me because they were 
sending
>so fast that neither the K3 nor I could copy them. Why do people do this?
>Surely the number of contacts lost because people like me who are not CW
>wizards just can't copy them must negate the benefit of any time saved?

Some of the worst offenders are those with big stations who fail to 
realize 
that many of those stations they would like to work are hearing them in 
the 
noise, or with propagation flutter, and that QRQ is defeating them. The 
guy 
who had D4B was an example (not D4C). A guy with all dits in his call, or 
an unusual prefix should be sending slower, not faster. I consider them 
LIDS! 

BTW -- I had my K3/KRX3 on for 29 hours of CQWW, and it sure is sweet. 400 

Hz filters in both RX. 

Interesting propagation from several locations on 20M caused very strong 
echoes that ran characters together to the point that I couldn't copy them 

at all. One example was about 1800Z Sunday for signals from anywhere NE 
USA 
and eastern Canada (that is, W1, W2, W3, VE1, VE2, VE3). Around 2200Z I 
was 
hearing it on a few JA stations. I'm about 70 miles S of San Francisco and 

use wire dipoles, so I don't have directivity to protect me from secondary 

arrivals. I also used to hear this in Chicago on EU stations around 1500Z, 

also with wire dipoles. I suspect that the mechanism for this might be a 
fairly strong long path signal favored by their beam and a direct path to 
me off the back of their beam. 

73,

Jim K9YC


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