[Elecraft] Fw: CQ WW DX Contest CW 2011 - Unofficial claimed scores

[Cady, Fred]

Neat site but unfortunately none of the audio clips demonstrate the
pileups heard at dx locations like C6AAW. Once again this year the K3s
AGC failed to perform adequately for us. I found many times I just had
to turn AGC off. Signals were much cleaner and more distinguishable. 
I think there are two things going on. First, I think the threshold
cannot be set high enough. The maximum is around S3 according to my
measurements. Thus, when you have a pileup of signals all in the S3, S4,
S5 region, which is common, AGC is compressing them together. When AGC
is off, these signals are now in a linear region of the transfer curve
and can be distinguished more easily. Second, and this is hard for me to
judge since it has been a while since I've used an analog audio
processing radio like the TS850, the audio doesn't sound "good". I
dunno. I think there is an inherent harshness(?) to digitally produced
audio as compared to analog audio. I'm not an audio guy, for sure.

Sadly, I suspect top contesters are beginning to look for another radio
to replace the K3 :-(

73,
Fred
KE7X/C6AKX/C6AAW


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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Paul VanOveren
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 6:16 AM
To: elecraft reflector
Subject: [Elecraft] Fw: CQ WW DX Contest CW 2011 - Unofficial claimed
scores

Russian website with claimed scores from last weekend.  Very cool video
embedded from HI3A, with 2 K3"s prominently displayed... you can look up
your score in the search box, for your ranking in the World, North
America or just USA....


Subject: CQ WW DX Contest CW 2011 - Unofficial claimed scores


http://pileup.ru/cqww_cw.php?year=2011
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