[Elecraft] K3 at Field Day

[Don Wilhelm]

  I had a similar experience.  My K3 was used on CW and digital modes, 
and only about a half hour on CW.
Our club had a guest operator who was very proficient with CW, and he 
was quite pleased with the K3 and the way it operated.

He especially was excited by the QSK. the auto-spot and the DSP 
filtering.  At one point, he commented that the K3 had so many operating 
conveniences that he expected the "kitchen sink" to appear out of it at 
any time :-) .
It helped that I had Quick-memories set up on the keypad for band 
changing and then changed to the sub-band (CW, Data, or SSB) with the 
M1, M2 and M3 buttons.  That made it easy for everyone to change 
bands/modes/filters.

I think our guest CW operator will be ordering a K3 soon.  He had 
thought all Elecraft gear needed soldering of thru-hole components, and 
was pleased to learn that the K3 was a plug-together kit.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/27/2011 12:24 PM, John Fritze wrote:
> Once again, I took my K3 to F/D this year with the P3.  Again, I had a tough
> time getting to sit down at my own transceiver.  It seemed as soon as
> someone got up from the operating position, another butt was in the seat.
>   Many comments were heard praising the receiver, the vox, the smoothness of
> the VFO (I have the N8BX knobs on both the main and sub) and of course the
> coolness of the P3.
>
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