[Elecraft] More K3 mojo

[T. David Yarnes]

Hi All,

I will claim a little "K3 Mojo" here too.  I've worked Ducie 
Island now on all modes from 10 meters through 40 meters. 
Not a great accomplishment you might say, considering that 
they are stronger than horseradish on just about every band 
and mode.  But the real tricky part when I decided to 
venture down further.  I listened on 80 CW, and there they 
were--nice signal too.  But I only have an R8 Vertical, 
which doesn't cover anything beyond 40 meters--supposedly. 
Ah, but the K3 has a pretty good ATU in it.  Pushed the 
button to tune, and it said 1:1 at the low end of 80 meters. 
Called the VP6 on CW and bingo!  Pretty amazing I thought, 
but have to give credit to their end more than mine.

This morning I thought I would listen on 160 just for kicks. 
There they were again, and very Q5.  You don't suppose 
there's enough Mojo in this thing to tune on 160 do you? 
Pushed the button, and it said 2.5:1.  Well, with 100 watts 
into that R8 it might be akin to QRP at the other end.  So I 
called on 1821 khz.  Two calls was all it took to get them 
on 160 CW!  Amazing--at least to me!

I have now concluded that with K3's at both ends, you can 
work them on any band with anything slightly better than a 
wet piece of string!  I sure hope they write a good article 
for QST or whatever which describes their antenna setup in 
some detail.  Pretty impressive, not to mention that they 
are all superb ops.  I better start listening on 6 meters!

Dave W7AQK




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K1DWZ" <Kennet4723 at aol.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:08 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] More K3 mojo


>
> The K3 mojo is still working.  I worked Ducie Island 
> again, this time on 20
> meters SSB with my K3 and an Elecraft MH2 mic running 10 
> watts to a G5RV
> antenna.
>
> Ken  K1DWZ
> K3 #167
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