[Elecraft] 2009 Field day

Dave, W8OV w8ov at verizon.net
Sun Jun 28 22:40:16 EDT 2009


Hector Padron wrote:
> If you guys worked WY5I on 40M CW that was me operating at the Jupiter Tequesta Radio Club here in South east FL,from 10PM to 4AM EST.
> My K3 operated as expected,no problems at all and it was very easy to select stations within the mess using the 500Hz roofer plus the DSP narrowed down to 100Hz,what a delightful radio to work a contest,I was very pleased with it,.even was hot here the PA kept running up no more than 40 degress,I had at the begining a unknown PS brand that quite when I used 100W out even it was 20A and replaced it by an Astron 35A and finished with that one with no problem.The antenna was a long G5RV with a swr of 3 to 1 but the K3 builtin tuner matched it down to 1.1 with no problem,I could also made few contacts on RTTY/PSK-31 easily.
>  
> AD4C
> K3 / 2192

You were my 61st FD contact with my 10-day old K3, Hector.

--Dave, W8OV


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