[Elecraft] A good DX session with the new K3

[John Harper]

The past 24 hours have been eye-opening - I've worked more *rare* DX in a 
single day ever outside of a major contest. Just picked up V88HTL (Brunei) 
on 30 meters for an all-time new one, plus a bunch of good stuff yesterday 
afternoon. Antenna in all cases is an 80m dipole fed with 450-ohm ladder 
line & used on all bands.

Fot 10 years, I spotted DX "by ear", not having a spot function on my rig. I 
eventually got thru and managed to log the DX but what's different now is 
having the ability with the K3's spot function to get dead-on the proper 
freq that the DX is currently listening on.

The brevity (2 or 3 calls only) of time spent in pile-ups now has convinced 
me that I was wrong before when I thought I was on the right freq. Details 
are at http://www.ae5x.com/blog/?p=2618 but suffice it to say that I'm 
getting attached to this rig...

John Harper AE5X