[Elecraft] K3 in the CQWW contest

[David Gilbert]

I had the same thing happen several times.  I'd call QRL? on what for me 
was a totally open frequency and get a "RR" reply from someone way off 
the side that I could only hear by virtue of their bad key clicks.  One 
guy was a full 500 Hz away and he still thought I'd be bothering him.

The narrow capability has another downside, though.  A few times I'd be 
calling CQ on a perfectly clear frequency without getting many replies 
even though I knew the band was open.  So I'd check either side of me 
and discover an S9+20 station 200 Hz away that I didn't even know was 
there, and potential callers with wider filters were having trouble 
separating us.

I was using the 250 Hz 8-pole filter with the DSP set to 200 Hz and it 
worked fantastic, but until everyone else buys a K3 (or at least fixes 
their damn key clicks) I'll probably not be able to get maximum benefit 
of it.

73,
Dave   AB7E



Jim Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:37:46 -0500, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
>
>   
>> What a great radio....
>>     
>
> Yes. Several times I got complaints from guys who came on my new run 
> frequency to complain when I landed too close to theirfrequency on 
> 40M. Thanks to my K3, I didn't even know they were there, and 
> couldn't hear them with my IF opened up to 400 Hz. Can't blame it on 
> my TX -- on CW, I can run 500 Hz away from my close-in neighbors who 
> also use K3s. 
>
> 73,
>
> Jim K9YC
>
>
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