[Elecraft] K3 Field Day

[WILLIS COOKE]

I operate fairly often from the museum submarine, USS Cavalla which has a 114 ft long wire fed with a 4:1 unun and 80 feet of Wiremen Super 8 coax.  The ATU in the K3 handles all bands 80 through 10 without a hitch.  I have not tried it on 160 or 6 because the unun I used is sorry enough on 80 and 10.
 Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ 




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From: Dan Atchison <n3nd at aol.com>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tue, June 29, 2010 11:18:52 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Field Day

Just my $0.02.

On one of the two K3's we had at FD (NR3X), we used an 80M dipole fed 
with 450 ohm ladder line.

Operators could not believe that I terminated the ladder line into a 
4:1 balun, then directly into the K3 (KAT3).  Using the internal tuner, 
the antenna became a multi-bander without a glitch.  This particular  
rig was used on all bands except 40M CW, in which another K3 was used.

Gotta love it.


Dan -- N3ND
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