[Elecraft] k3 and field day

[david Moes]

Thanks Bill and to all the others    you all have given great info  
here.  lots to plan.  and Id enjoy reading others experiences as well  
bad or good.    I will have to spend some time to figure out what to do 
with the function keys.   and think about  the briefing.  The one issue 
I have is the mic gain has to be adjusted quite a bit when switching to 
the FP mic  only one of our opps has the tendency to play a bit and will 
get the polite riot act reading.

on a partly related topic     when I save the config  will it also save 
the tuners memories?    if I have to restore the config will I have to 
"retrain" the tuner.    this is not hard using the K3 EZ  but should 
problems happen and I dont have to do the tuner thing that will be nice.





On 5/11/2012 6:04 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> 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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