[Elecraft] k3 and field day

[Tom Azlin N4ZPT]

Hi David,

We ( Vienna Wireless Society) have had multiple Elecraft K3s our for our 
field day. Did not seem any more difficult that other radios we have had 
out. I think there is a locked setting to limit amount of messing up the 
settings. We usually had someone around that knew how to reset the 
radios. But we had that sort of issue with a TenTec Orion and a 
FT-1000MP previous years. So no worse experience with K3s than any other 
radio brought out with those that did not own one.

We used mono-band antennas for 40m CW and SSB stations and multi band 
antennas for our other two stations.  Had two sets of band pass filters 
but discovered the K3s were just fine without.

We have also had a 3 band Spiderbeam up on a 15 meter mast for the 
non-40 SSB station which got us a nice signal to the West.

we do not like multiband antennas in general. lately we have been using 
two element wire yagis pointed towards the West coast ( we are in Virginia).

73, tom n4zpt

On 5/11/2012 12:29 PM, dmoes at nexicom.net wrote:
> I will have my k3 at Field Day this year and would like a little
> advice.    I will have the Yamaha cm500,  a hand held mic plus a set
> of paddles.   It will have one multiband antenna.   plus a will
> periodically be connected  to a beam when its available.
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> Since it will also be used by several other ops that probably wont
> know the K3 I would like to set it up as user friendly as possible and
> lock out as much as possible in the menus to prevent it from being
> messed up.
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> What  settings have others used in this situation.   and what
> precautions are there?   and any other thoughts please.
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> Please answer to the reflector  and not directly to me.
> David Moes
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> VE3DVY
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