[Elecraft] [Elecraft_K3] K2/K3 Operating Tip: Using SCAN to keep an eye on your favorite (too-quiet) band

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

That's great and I like the idea, but with a variable S7 to S9 noise floor here, I find the K3 stops all the time - would you expect that or am I doing something wrong?
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174, P3 #108
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On 4 May 2011, at 16:00, Wayne Burdick wrote:

> When I was a teenage novice in the early 1970's, armed only with a 
> Heathkit HW-16, 15 meters became my favorite band. It was a reliable 
> source of DX contacts even when my entire antenna system was a 
> multiband inverted-V a few feet off the roof.
> 
> 15 m, as well as the other "high" HF bands (12 m, 10 m), can be 
> sparsely populated at times, even when they're open. In the old days 
> that meant tuning the VFO up and down, searching endlessly. But the K2 
> and K3 have a SCAN feature that lets the radio do the work, while you 
> answer email, work on homebrew projects, clean up the shack, etc.
> 
> I was reminded of this about half an hour ago. A quick check of 15 m 
> revealed no signals, so I set up a background (muted) scan from 
> 21.000-21.060 on the K3. A few minutes later the scan stopped at 
> 21.026, where PJ2/KE1B was calling CQ. Since he had just started 
> calling, there was no pileup, and I made the QSO on one call.
> 
> For scanning instructions, see page 40 of the K3 owner's manual or 
> page 103 of the K2 manual.
> 
> Let me know what pops up.
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
> 
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