[Elecraft] K3 in CQ 160 CW Contest

[Brian Machesney]

Bill,

I more than doubled last year's score without doubling QSOs, which means
that I had a greater percentage of non-US QSOs. I originally attributed this
to improved conditions and was surprised to hear from other "nearby"
stations that conditions for them were not as good as last year.

I had completely forgotten that this was my first CQ WW 160 with the K3, but
I do remember marvelling during the contest at my ability to hear and work
EU and near-AS stations that were calling "underneath" US/VE stations.

This is even more amazing since I use the same, omnidirectional antenna for
both TX and RX.
-- 
73 -- Brian -- K1LI
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Bill W4ZV <btippett at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>
> If you want some interesting reading, go to the link below and use Edit >
> Find "space K3 space" in your web browser.  You can then scroll through the
> 3830 Soapbox summary comments by participants in what is arguably the
> world's most extreme test of RX capability (i.e. extremely weak signals in
> the presence of wall-to-wall extremely strong signals).
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~mwdink/3830/CQ160%20CW%20Soapbox%2002-01-2010.txt
>
> 73,  Bill  W4ZV