[Elecraft] Swains Island

[Don Wilhelm]

Unfortunately, comments of that nature do not improve the Icom image 
over the K3.  It may be that Icom is providing the transceivers for the 
DXPedition, but tha says nothing about the performance of the 
transceivers  The K3 continues to reign high on the list of transceivers 
fit and eligible for DXpedition use.
.
73,
Don W3FPR

On 9/10/2012 5:29 PM, Bob K6UJ wrote:
> I think that Icom is getting tired of seeing the K3's being the preferred rig for dxpeditions and decided
> to provide the IC-7600's for the Swains Island dxpedition in hopes of improving their image.   :-)
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> Bob
> K6UJ
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> On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:
>
>> *Tony,
>>
>> I have worked them on 4 bands so far bbut I have noticed they continually
>> ask for a partial call sign to be repeated. By this I noticed they will ask
>> "the station ending in Tango your call?" and they do this with almost every
>> call and most of the time on all bands.
>>
>> Listening to the pileup I am able to clearly distinguish quite a few calls
>> and I am not that far away from them by distance.
>>
>> You have to wonder if their job would have been easier IF they were using
>> K3's
>>
>> :-)
>> *
>> On 11 September 2012 00:33, Tony Estep <esteptony at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The NH8S expedition, partly sponsored by Elecraft,  has been going strong
>>> for a while and will be running until the 19th. Swains Island is the 31st
>>> most-needed DX country, according to DX News. They are using KPA500 amps,
>>> although not K3s (tsk-tsk). For whatever reason, the pileups have not been
>>> too bad, and the ops are excellent. Their site is NH8S.org
>>>
>>> Tony KT0NY
>>>
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>> -- 
>> *Gary*
>> *Start the day off slow, then taper off.........*
>> K3 #679
>> KPA500FT #18
>> KAT500FT 007
>> P3 #1629
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