[Elecraft] K3 - KAT3 performance

[Fred Jensen]

I don't have resonant antennas for the WARC bands.  I have a sloping V 
[41m on each leg] fed with ladder line to a 4:1 balun at the bottom of 
the tower and coax into the shack.  Works good on 30m and 40m, not so 
much on 80m [cloud warmer].  Was playing around with APF looking for 
weak signals and ran across YJ0HA on 24892.  KAT3 matched the V to 1:1, 
worked him at 100W in about 2 mins.  He's currently S3 and building with 
the preamp on.  Sort of readable without the APF, with the APF I can 
hear him with the cans on the desk.

Now if I just had the KPA500 ...

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org