[Elecraft] k3 and field day

[Bill Frantz]

Last year I was in charge of our GOTA station. I was told, 
"We'll have a K2 for you." Well, I'd never used a K2 so I 
downloaded the manual from the Elecraft site and printed it 
thinking that I would need to continuously refer to it like I 
have to with my Yaesu and Icom radios. The UI on the K2 was so 
well designed that the printed copy stayed in my bag. It was 
user friendly out of the box. And I am far from being an 
experienced HF operator (except on PSK).

I think the K3 is in the same category. I have CONFIG:TECH-MD 
turned off on my K3 and would certainly recommend that setting 
for field day. Having a laptop available to be able to reload 
the config and firmware would be prudent.

My K3 will see service in the GOTA tent this year while I'm on 
the opposite side of the country trying to make contacts with 
the I-706 in my SUV. My club, WVARA, runs a QRP operation and 
has experienced GOTA coaches, so my bare-bones K3 should survive 
the event quite nicely.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 5/11/12 at 9:29, dmoes at nexicom.net wrote:

>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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