[Elecraft] K3 first impressions from ARRL DX SSB (long)

[Gary D Krause]

Hi Jeff,

What you are describing sounds like some kind of 3D sound.  That's 
interesting.  I think it can be summed up as Elecraft MOJO.  This past 
weekend, I was running up and down the 17 meter band and couldn't hear any 
signals.  It was late in the afternoon.  On my way back down, I heard a very 
faint signal.  It was a Japanese station.  I tried to spot him as best I could 
and then called him with 10 watts on CW with my homebrew vertical ground 
plane, using my K2.  He heard me!  We exchanged signal reports.  I was amazed! 
 Now I know that propagation and the antenna has a lot to do with, at least 
that is what the left brained, no nonsense, I don't believe it unless I can 
measure it, feel it, hear it, see it, taste it or smell it crowd, would say. 
 But, the MOJO seems to be way beyond that and becomes almost a spiritual 
experience. :-)  I think many of us have had some kind of experience like 
that, except for the people mentioned above ;-)

I may have to order a K3.

Gary, N7HTS