[Elecraft] Ducie ...

[T. David Yarnes]

Chris and All,

I don't know if it's too late or not, as they may be packing 
things up at VP6DX as we speak.  But give that antenna a try 
on 160.  The K3's ATU seems to be very wide ranged.  I 
worked VP6DX on all modes from 10 through 160--that's 20 out 
of 22 possible (didn't hear a peep on 6 meters), which is as 
much as anyone had I think.  All of that was done with an R8 
Vertical, which isn't supposed to work below 40 meters.  And 
no computer was used either--just the CW input to the K3 
converted to RTTY on the 3 bands on which they operated that 
mode.  Anyway, the point is that the K3 does a lot more than 
one might think.  It won't make a bad antenna good, but it 
certainly will deal with some strange arrangements!  This is 
another plus for the K3 over the Orion II.  The ATU in my 
Orion II absolutely won't handle anything on 80, let alone 
160, with my R8.  I was getting a 1 to 1 match on 80, and a 
2.5 to 1 on 160.  It would be nice to have an antenna for 
those bands, but I just can't do it here.  Of course, that 
doesn't mean I'm going to be able to work those bands 
regularly, but it is kind of fascinating to find that the K3 
will do so much more than just about any other radio out 
there.  Having said that, I don't think I will press my luck 
and stress out the K3 on 160 with something like RTTY!  But 
in a pinch I might be able to at least say "Hi" to someone.

Dave W7AQK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Kantarjiev" <cak at dimebank.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:56 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] Ducie ...


> All this talk of easy RTTY QSOs got me going: I rigged my 
> K2 with
> a couple of patch cords to the sound card and figured out 
> MMTTY: I
> just made my first ever RTTY QSO to VP6DX with 5W on 30M 
> ...
>
> I've got them QRP/CW on 80-10 and RTTY on 30. I'll keep 
> trying for 160 but my
> best antenna for that is a 40m dipole, so I rarely hear 
> them much less
> try to transmit :-)
>
> 73 de chris K6DBG
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