[Elecraft] CQWW SSB observations

[Jim Brown]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:37:09 -0700, gdaught6 at stanford.edu wrote:

>I DO KNOW FOR SURE that several very serious 
>multi-op contest stations have converted to 100% K3's.

YES. N6RO has been all K3s for nearly a year. Before that it was 
MPs. They probably still have N6BV's Orion. W7RN had a bunch of 
FT2000s. Received one K3 last month. His FT2000s are now for sale. 
K6XX has a bunch of K3s. So do N6TV and W0YK. I have two. 

Of the contesters I know, there are mostly guys who own and use 
K3s, and there are guys who want to own one (or two). :) 

The user interface of the K3 is quite well designed for contesting 
and DX chasing, and easy to learn. While there have been many 
software and firmware updates, nearly all are ADDING functions, 
rarely fixing or changing things. My only complaints are related to 
the second RX, which I still find a bit clunky to use (although 
it's a spectacularly good RX), and the lack of a complete, coherent 
manual for those ongoing upgrades. 

73,

Jim K9YC