[Elecraft] barefoot K3 in ARRL CW

[Fred Jensen]

On 2/19/2011 3:28 PM, Milt -- N5IA wrote:
> K-3s ROCK.
>
> Doing a single band 40 Meter effort here in New Mexico. First night
> yielded more than 500 Qs and 91 DXCC entities. Outstanding performance.
> With some luck with mults from EU and AF I may make DXCC in one weekend.
> One BA station gave me a report of 5W. He sent an E-mail to me saying he
> is using an FT-817. So, you are correct, Fred, the K-3 RX does well.

I'm in this sporadically around other weekend things, including getting 
some snow and ice off the back steps.  Having already worked V31RR 
earlier, I spent some time playing around with the things I could do to 
pick people out of the pileup.  Really cool ... learned a few things.
>
> And the TX works quite well also. First call response through the unruly
> mob to the New Guinea station. Lots of fun near sunrise this morning
> working central European Russian stations via long path over the South
> Pacific.

Despite dire predictions for when all the sun poop was headed our way, 
this turned out to be fairly fantastic ... haven't seen 10m open like 
that.  I've always had fairly high RX noise on 10, not that it has 
mattered much in the last few years, but my K2 and K3 are soooo quiet.

Maybe I'll find you on 40 tonight.

73,

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