R: R: [Elecraft] K3-Latest K3 Review on EHAM

[Paolo Gramigna]

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Not that I know what a Drake S line is but strange you could work
VP6DX with it.
 From reading this list I have got the impression that to work
VP6DX you indeed need a Elecraft K3 radio.
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Pardon me for the typo. It was, quite obviously, a Drake C line of 1979
vintage. An I worked them on CW using a Vibroplex-like Vizkey bug handmade
by Tom, K4VIZ and modeled after a design produced by the late John Marachini
Merrick, VE3AUB/VE3AWA. No paddle, no keyer, no DSP, no computer-controlled
rig, no packet cluster, nothing besides a few vacuum tubes, a bug and a 1/4
vertical. And oh boy, how I liked that QSO!

But anyway, after building a KX1 (worked all Europe while hiking, on AA
batteries) and a K2 (worked all the continents with a string of wire up on a
tree, on internal batteries) I decided to sell my Icom 781; and my K3 is on
his way right now.

I still like the smell and warmth of my vacuum tubes (Real Radios Glow In
The Dark!) but I'll like to finally own a rig, whose receiver will finally
beat my vintage, perfectly calibrated R-390A (a late EAC production). And I
don't care a dime for the "punch" of the speech processor; first of all, I
work 99,9% on CW (when I want to go SSB I have to ask a friend to lend me a
microphone, since I don't own any) and second because I don't want a Robocop
voice; mine is already bad enough.

Cheers,
Paolo IK4YNG