[Elecraft] K3 Diversity Rocks!

[Gary Hinson]

> Just how much of an improvement do you find 
> with diversity
> reception?   Is it possible to quantize?   


Hi Doug.

I'm not (yet) on topband but reckon that diversity is worth a few dbs (up to
maybe 5 dB?) on the other bands, particularly on 30m where my RX antenna (a
30m fullwave wire loop) works best.  Lately I've been trying WSPRnet and
find that, on 30m anyway, I can hear QRP sigs in EU down to 0.1 Watt by
greyline while the Europeans haven't yet heard me below about 1 W out.  My
TX antenna on 30 is a rotary wire dipole at 13m AGL on the tower at the far
end of 100m of RG213, where I probably lose a couple of dB.  The RX loop is
up in the trees only 20m away from the shack, also fed with a shorter hank
of RG213.  I haven't yet tried swapping RX and TX antennas over.

73
Gary