[Elecraft] WRTC - Rig choices for the contest explained!

[juergen]

Hi Lu

All meaningless really.  Whats evident from the list is that many still prefer the big radio layout like the FT1000 for its ergonomics.  

If rig selection was so important we should all go out and buy FT450's  since the winner used that radio. 

I am sure if you had the hardware that K3LR has in the air, you could win any contest even with a IC706!

Until a  bigger K4 is released the K3's small size and ergonomics will always be a factor in anyone's purchasing decision.  Everyone that I have demonstrated the K3 too, that person has always criticized  the radios small size and ergonomics for whatever that criticism is worth. 

I am waiting for the K4 or K3B(BIG)! 

73
John


--- On Sun, 7/18/10, Lu Romero <lromero at ij.net> wrote:

> From: Lu Romero <lromero at ij.net>
> Subject: [Elecraft] WRTC - Rig choices for the contest explained!
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 1:48 AM
> All:
> 
> Well, I certainly poked a rather large stick into the
> Amateur Radio Contesting ant hill, didnt I?  Lots of
> ants
> are scurrying around wondering if my between-the-lines
> conjecture is a seachange for some.
> 
> Aparently, its not.  
> 
> Tim Duffy, K3LR, personally sent me an email regarding my
> post's questions (!).  He asked that I relay his
> reasons for
> using a K3 in WRTC to all of you.  I have cut them
> and
> pasted them in this post.  His reasons are certainly
> plausible.  They are as follows (the enphasis is not
> mine,
> this is a literal cut and paste):
> 
> ----------- snip -------------
> 
> K3LR was not the WRTC TEAM LEADER – K3LR was a TEAM MATE
> of N2NT. As a TEAM MATE K3LR did not have the final
> decision
> on what radios would be used by our team. K3LR used the
> radios that the TEAM LEADER selected.
> 
> However, it was good for K3LR to use a K3 (for the first
> time). K3LR has been asked many times how a K3 compares to
> the Icom IC 7800 and IC 7700. Now K3LR knows the
> operational
> “contest” differences between the Icom radios and a K3.
> 
> 
> So the result is that the K3LR Multi Multi station will
> STAY
> 100% Icom IC7800 and IC7700!
> 
> ------------ snip -----------
> 
> So there you have it.   
> 
> I will leave it to others in the contesting ecosystem to
> add
> any more conjecture to my thoughts.  I had valid
> questions
> and opinions, and I got a plausible answer.
> 
> This discussion has helped me remember why my wife
> suggests
> that I wear my wedding ring when I travel out of town and
> elbows me in the ribs when my flirtations with other
> ladies
> at cocktail parties cross her "line of reasonableness"... 
> :)  
> 
> Best 73
> 
> Lu Romero - W4LT
> 
> 
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