[Elecraft] Super K3

[The Smiths]

CW DX was both amazing and fun!  The world opened up, and the K3 brought great joy in being able to not only hear them all, but work them all!  There wasn't a call that I heard I couldn't get a report back from! 24 hours of the day I checked in, and it was always the same thing.  Calls I hadn't heard in YEARS all answering me on my little doublet antenna!

Yet, at 0000Z time on Sunday the band droped out as if a nuclear bomb had hit the entire world.  What is wrong with Ham radio when we only know how to enjoy our hobby when there's a contest?

At 0001z I sent a repeated CQ CQ CQ, it took till 0014z before someone 500 miles from me finally answered it. Yet 14 minutes before that I was hearing Cuba, Ireland, the South Pacific and Finland all within 10KC of my CQ calling freq.

What an utter shame...Man, Ham radio really needs a good kick in the butt!

 

 


 
> From: ke6te.9 at gmail.com
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:05:04 -0800
> Subject: [Elecraft] Super K3
> 
> I had my best Q's on CW DX contest using K3 and Wintest this week end. EU and other parts of the world are finally heard and worked using my K3. If was a lot of FUN.
> George KE6TE
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