[Elecraft] K3 at Field Day

[Dave Perry]

Don,

I sort of had the opposite experience at FD.  I was the only real CW op in 
our local club, but my K3 was at home.  One of the other club members had an 
Omni-VII setup as the CW rig.  I used it to make 500 contacts in about six 
hours of operating time (using a multiband dipole).  I actually seriously 
considered getting the Omni-VII two years ago before I decided to purchase 
my K3.  In short, the Omni is a nice little rig, but doesn't have the fit 
and finish of a K3.  After operating 40M CW for several hours, I immediately 
fired up my K3 as soon as I arrived back home.  I was curious to see how 40M 
sounded on my K3 versus the Omni.  It was just amazing how the K3 separates 
the signals and quiets down the band during a busy contest.  Plus the K3 has 
much better ergonomics and access to critical controls.  Of course, I 
suppose that I am preaching to the choir!  Still, FD is always a good time 
to try other rigs.

Dave, N4QS

Proud owner of the K-Line


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Wilhelm" <w3fpr at embarqmail.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 at Field Day


>  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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