[Elecraft] KX3 Field Day observations

[Barry LaZar]

Wayne,
     In an earlier response I indicated that that I might not have 
understood. I didn't! I was so out of it from FD that I probably made 
little sense.

     I did discover APF during some familiarization in my shack. We did 
not use it during FD as I had totally forgotten about it during the 
hectic goings on. I have rebuild my home shack and am kicking myself for 
having forgotten about this feature. During my few days of 
familiarization at home, I found APF to be quite useful. As I think 
about it, I suspect operator fatigue would have been less had it not 
been for this oversight. I suggest every CW operator who has this 
feature on his radio, whether using a KX3 or not, to use it. It really 
can clean up noisy signals. Sure wish we had you on our site.

Vy 73,
Barry
K3NDM



On 6/25/2012 3:29 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> Did you find about about APF in time to use it during FD?  :)
>
> Wayne
>
> On Jun 24, 2012, at 10:50 PM, k3ndm at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> I received my KX3 about a week ahead of FD. Therefore, I hadn't much 
>> experience with it. We were running 2A on solar power; the other rig 
>> was a K2.
>>
>> FWIW: The features in the KX3 allowed me to about double my QSO rate 
>> as compared to the K2 and other rigs I have used. My general 
>> impression is that the KX3 makes an ideal, or nearly so, FD radio. We 
>> ran 546 Q's on these two radios. Why didn't we do better? Operator 
>> fatigue. Had we had maybe three more operators we probably could have 
>> made 1000 Q's. And, we were QRP!!!
>>
>> What was amusing is the comment of one of our operators. He is a QRO 
>> contest op who likes to run full legal limit. He kept commenting that 
>> he couldn't believe what we were doing at 5W. Oh, yes. He owns a K3.
>>
>> Wayne/Eric,
>>      You guys done good!! The KX3 is a keeper!
>>
>> Vy 73,
>> Barry
>> K3NDM
>>
>> From: "Wayne Burdick" <n6kr at elecraft.com>
>> To: "Phillip Shepard" <phils at riousa.com>
>> Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 10:25:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX3 Field Day observations
>>
>> Thanks for the report, Phillip. We had two KX3s at our FD site (K6SRA)
>> with similar results.
>>
>> Regarding VFO tuning noise, did you try using RX SHFT on the affected
>> band(s)? This turns out to be very effective, especially in
>> combination with VFO NR. Both menu entries can be set up per-band, and
>> are typically needed only the highest bands.
>>
>> 73,
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>>
>>
>> On Jun 24, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Phillip Shepard wrote:
>>
>> > Field Day this weekend was the first real test of my new KX3 (s/n
>> > 268).
>> > Before Saturday it had only seen light picnic table use and one SOTA
>> > peak
>> > activation.  How did I like it during FD?  This is one sweet little
>> > radio!
>> > I operated somewhat casually in a search and pounce mode, with 90%
>> > of the
>> > QSOs on CW and the rest on SSB.
>> >
>>
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