[Elecraft] K3 and the ARRL DX contest - A conundrum

[K6LE]

John,

Yes I do!

And I hesitated to even mention it but decided that in the sprit of a level playing field I would share with this select group..

After 50 years of having a license I felt like an idiot when I stumbled on this logic but I think I noticed it because of the excellent ability of the CWT system. Of course in a DX pile up working split it is obvious that finding the worked stations freq is important but in a contest I never thought of working "mini-split". I found myself proudly using CW on every call and being smug in the realization that I, unlike most others, was dead on the run stations frequency.  But, I wasn't getting some of the expected return calls.  

When I finally had the epiphany that the run station was listening on the last worked stations freq even if off a few hundred Hz my rate went way up.  

Probably the run stations that were most affected by this were K3 operators since if they had it cranked down to minimum they never heard me when I was on their freq.   Darn K3!

Rick
K6LE

On 2/25/2010, at 1:06 , John Harper wrote:

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> Gary,
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> Rick, you do realize that the more people that know this, the more difficult the pile-ups will become don't you?!
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> John Harper
> http://www.ae5x.com/blog
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