[Elecraft] CQ WW SSB

[Mitch Wolfson DJØQN]

Hi Johnny,

I have had a lot of problems over the years trying to order things from 
U.S. based stores using a foreign credit card. Most internet shops there 
seem to think we are all some kind of criminal if we live outside of the 
United States ;-)

One exception I have found is B&H. They have no problem with foreign 
cards, even billing a foreign address, but shipping to a U.S. address.

Their link for the CM500 is at:
<http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/375558-REG/Yamaha_CM500_CM500_Headset_with.html> 


73,
Mitch DJ0QN

On 31.10.2011 02:18, Johnny Siu wrote:
> Hello Elecrafter,
>
> I was QRV to an outline island of Hong Kong (known an Lamma Island).  Therefore, I only brought K3+KPA500+Buddipole+25A switching power supply.
>
> Scores were of course nothing promising because I was lazy and slept a lot.  The buddipole was installed on the roof of 3 storey village type house.  However, the metal canopy structure on the roof seriously influenced the buddipole set up so that SWR below 21Mhz was very high no matter how I adjusted the antenna.
>
> KAT500 is still in Elecraft's lab.  Therefore, no tuner was used in this set up.  KPA500 could handle SWR below 2 and I worked full power of KPA500 on 28Mhz.  The KPA500 was cool and quiet.  The integration with K3 was silk smooth.
>
> Below 28Mhz, I can only run bearfoot with K3 using the internal KAT3.  In 7Mhz, I trust the effective RF out at the end of Buddipole could be as low as 50W.  Anyway, I could still get some multipliers in Europe.
>
> The selectivity of K3 was excellent but I really missed the DSP NR in my big Icoms.  I regret to say that NR in K3 is as bad as useless so that I simply turned off DSP NR during the entire contest.  Also, when I adjusted the IF bandwidth say from 2.4khz to 2.1khz, I noticed a very short 'black out' time when I could not hear the signal during the adjustment.  I would suspect the DSP IF filter in K3 needs some time to 'think' about the adjustment.  Once I settled down to 2.1Khz, it was all ok.
>
> I used the Yamaha CM500 from my colleage VO1AU which was very good.  I cannot get a CM500 in VR2, could any of you advise where I can get a CM500 in USA?
>   
> The logging ware was N1MM.
>
> During contest time, band spectrum P3 seems not quite necessary because there were stations every other Khz.  I heard quite a number of US stations even in 7Mhz but I could not work them due to poor antenna set up.
>
> How was your CQ WW?  Any information / experience to share?
>
> TNX&  73,
>
>
> Johnny VR2XMC        
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