[Elecraft] CQ Contest

[Julius Fazekas n2wn]

Hi Dave,

You do present an interesting point on receiver disparity. I think this has
always been an issue, not just due to radios, but also antennas and
propagation. It is an interesting question that will most likely be a factor
this coming Fall. The winner will still be who has the best signal or maybe
who's rarest and the majority can hear and work. 

Those who will be hurt the most will be the ones who were able to control
large chunks of spectrum.

At what point does it become rude? Hard to say... Generally a really weak
station under a power house won't be there very long anyway, because it is
unproductive, maybe they will last a bit longer now... If the guy who is
running say EU and you're working Asia just off his run frequency, it may be
a minor problem. 20 and 160 could be very different animals if they are
really open...

Ahhh, the RIT/XIT, my only beef with the K3... still can't adjust them while
in transmit. That was a sweet feature on the K2!

73,
Julius

"The other very impressive thing was the narrow filter.  I used a 250 Hz
8-pole filter with the DSP set to 250 Hz, and it was like a knife edge.  I
could operate within a couple hundred Hz of most S9+20 stations and never
hear them --- unmodified Yaesu rigs being the exception (there are still
some HORRIBLE sounding clicks out there).  Whether those stations heard me
was probably a function of whether they were using a K3 or not ;)  The
downside was that I had to ride the RIT most of the time ... I had a LOT of
people call me pretty far off frequency and the only way I could tell they
were there was by the rhythm of their key clicks unless I swept back and
forth with the RIT.

Which brings up a side observation ... there is so much disparity now
between the performance of various rigs that it seems possible to generate
some misconceptions regarding operating skill and courtesy.  I wonder how
many times other stations thought I was deaf or couldn't copy their CW
merely because they couldn't zero beat my signal within 150 Hz or so?  And I
wonder how many people thought I was a LID for calling CQ too close to them
on what was for me a clear frequency because they didn't have as tight a
filtering as I did?  To minimize the latter, I usually opened up the
bandpass a bit when looking for a clear frequency, but the folks with 500 Hz
filters and no roofing filters would have still had trouble."

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Julius Fazekas
N2WN

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