[Elecraft] Exciting Band Opening...

[Don Rasmussen]

The band openings of the last two days at this QTH have allowed a new level of evaluation of K3. I'm mostly on 20m, with a hexbeam, and the last couple days have provided a boost in band activity that I have not seen since I got the transceiver 2 years ago. Of course there are some guys that only got their K2's a couple years ago, they will be equally impressed. 

I have still not encountered any scenario where the roofing filter (2.7 and 1.0) improved my operation, the DSP seems as robust as I need it to be for a modest gain antenna.

This solar maximum will be different, the sideband frequencies will have as much fidelity as AM or FM used to. I can still remember having guests in the shack that could not decipher the monkey chatter OT the code. ;-) K3 guys pick up a wider than 2.7 khz roofing filter to take best advantage of this. 



Here it comes!