[Elecraft] APF suggestions

[Nick-WA5BDU]

Regarding contest usage, that was my thought too.  It's been about three 
years since I swapped the FT-1000 for the K3 but IIRC, the APF was 
pretty great in certain situations -- usually a weak signal, low band 
noise, and station not sending too fast.  The APF was a little "ring-y" 
and muddied faster code a little bit.  Last week I got to play with an 
FT1k at a club station and confirmed those impressions somewhat.

In contests I'm usually hands off -- I won't even touch the RIT if it's 
possible at all to copy the off-frequency station as-is.  In a contest, 
even if I ask the other guy for a repeat, the repeat might take two or 
three seconds, not enough time to optimize settings.

But it's not all about contests, and some contests (QRP, for example) 
tend to be less frenzied too.  I'm one of the many anxious to get a look 
at this new feature in an already great rig.

73-

Nick, WA5BDU

On 10/27/2010 6:00 PM, Al Lorona wrote:
> Why? Too many controls to remember, too fast a pace to turn it on and off and
> tune it in the elapsed time of one contact. No way would I leave it on while
> running. I'm good at using the existing controls to do what I have to do to dig
> a signal out.
>