[Elecraft] Interesting Conversation about FT-5000 vs K3

[Gary Gregory]

Actually there are 8 K3's on Kermadec...so they told us.

Even have one set up as a 6M beacon.

Forgot to ask what amps they were using...oh well..:-)

73's
Gary

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Jim Sheldon <w0eb at cox.net> wrote:

> Yup,
> I just worked ZL8X on 30 meters a while ago.  My IC-7000 (soon to be
> replaced by a K3/P3 combo) could barely hear them off my Butternut HF2V
> vertical, but once I got the split set to where they were listening, grabbed
> 'em first call.  I know they have some K3's there and I'd almost bet dollars
> to donuts that the op on the Kermadec end was running one.  I'd also bet
> that if I had a K3 in place of that little IC-7000, I wouldn't have had any
> trouble hearing them at all.
>
> Jim - W0EB
>
> > Isn't it amazing the subjects that come up when someone's favorite
> > non-Elecraft radio company is getting it's butt kicked in the
> > contest wars.  That "more K3 than anything else combined" at the
> > WRTC really rankled some nerves.  I don't think I have ever heard
> > "will the company still be here in 10 years" used before in a
> > discussion about what radio to buy.  They are really getting
> > desperate.
> >
> > 73, Guy.
>
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