[Elecraft] OT-VP6DX Operation

[T. David Yarnes]

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Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT-VP6DX Operation


> >Over 181,000 QSO's were made,
>>which is a new DXpedition record.  I think it is safe to
>>assume that a K3 was involved in every one of those QSO's,
>>and many times there was a K3 at both ends.
>
> Well, there are not even 500 K3's out in the wild.  Of 
> those, not
> every one is owned by someone who cared to work VP6DX. 
> "Many times"
> might be a "tad" of an overstatement, no?   ;-)


Ah!  But you perhaps forget that all the radios used by the 
DXpedition were K3's!  So, at least 1/2 of every contact 
involved a K3!  As for saying "many times", I thought that I 
was being appropriately conservative, and clearly with the 
knowledge as to how many K3's are out there.  But perhaps 
you would prefer it if I had said "a few" or "several". 
Both of those terms would seem to indicate only a "handful", 
and I think there were a lot more than that.  I wasn't 
trying to exxagerate it, however, and I certainly wasn't 
suggesting it was a "significant" percentage of the 181,000 
QSO's.  I really have no definite idea how many folks with 
K3's actually did work the VP6, but there have been enough 
comments right here on the reflector about doing so that I 
think it safe to assume that "many" isn't an unreasonable 
term.  I also know of some K3 owners who did work the VP6, 
but haven't even said "boo" here on the reflector, or at 
least about having worked the VP6.  So, I'll stick with 
saying "many", but obviously it has to be taken in context 
with the number of K3's actually out there.

Dave W7AQK



Dave W7AQK