[Elecraft] Super K3

[Terry Schieler]

Yep.  The "broad as a barn door" reciever thing was a great feature in those days since we were crystal controlled transmit and had no idea where on the Novice band the reply to our CQ would come from.

W0FM

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Bloom [mailto:n1al at cds1.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 11:43 AM
To: n5ge at n5ge.com
Cc: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Super K3

On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 11:19 -0600, Radio Amateur N5GE wrote:
...
> Those of you who weren't hams when you had to do the Novice thing
> haven't experienced a fully utilized Novice portion of a band.  If you
> didn't have a CW filter it was hard to make a contact that lasted very
> long.

I dunno, I used to make lots of contacts with my trusty Knight Kit Star
Roamer.  That thing was a real joke of a receiver.  The entire novice
band was about 1/8 inch wide on the dial.  You had to tune reeeeeely
carefully.  The selectivity was broad as a barn door, which was actually
a good thing because the receiver never came back to the same frequency
after a transmission so you had to tune around to find the station you
were working.

"And I had to walk two miles in the snow to school every morning..."

Al N1AL