[Elecraft] [KX3] K2N "QRP CW DE-Xpedition" Results and Video

[Thomas Campie]

Any close up pictures of the new key?

73, W0EA
TJ
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QRP ARCI #14612 | CW Ops #953 | SKCC #4593T
NAQCC #3768 | Flying Pigs QRP #2254
Elecraft KX3 SN 288
Because QRO is too easy

On Sep 20, 2012, at 9:25 PM, Charles Cupp <w6cup at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Great Job Stan!!! U guys musts had a ball!!! Charly W6CUP
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> iPhone 4Gs 64Gig
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> Pax Vobiscum
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> On Sep 20, 2012, at 19:21, "stan levandowski" <sjl219 at optonline.net> wrote:
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>> Our three KX3s performed flawlessly through eight hours of solid 
>> pounding. We made 148 contacts and probably influenced the purchase of 
>> at least a couple of KX3s in the process. The three KX3s were operating 
>> within a few of feet of each other but we experienced no interference 
>> issues we couldn't mitigate - except for fundamental overload when we 
>> put two of them on parallel vertical antennas only a few yards apart. 
>> Gosh...that's asking just a bit too much, even from Elecraft!
>> 
>> So Tony W1ZMB had to give up his 70 foot vertical for a 12 foot whip 
>> antenna on the flying bridge that was fed with 200 feet of coax. The 
>> KX3's ATU matched it 1:1 and whatever RF Tony had left by the time it 
>> got to the whip found its way west to California, south to Uruguay, and 
>> east to Europe.
>> 
>> Ulrich N2DE made 67 contacts on his 80 foot wire vertical. Primarily 
>> DX. Ulrich doesn't believe in wasting paper; he used his CW Machine to 
>> autolog everything. I'll have to wait till he emails me an ADIF file to 
>> see exactly where his signals landed.
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>> I spent the day on 40 meters at the end of a 100' long wire. The KX3 
>> and its ATU were very happy with the antenna and the 1200 ton 
>> counterpoise ;) My signal reports were mostly 559 to 599 with a 
>> pipeline to the south, right off the end of the long wire. No DX for 
>> me, except for Canada. Guess it was too early for 40M and we had to QRT 
>> at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
>> 
>> We all noted with great pleasure how many KX3s we worked today. We also 
>> worked a number of K3s and K2s. We were hoping for at least one K1 and 
>> a KX1 to make a clean sweep of the product line but (as far as I know at 
>> this point) that didn't happen.
>> 
>> My best "DX" was W4FKM in Bristol, TN. Claude had a homebrew 450 mw rig 
>> on 40 meters into an inverted V. The APF function and a very narrow 
>> bandwidth brought him out of the noise quite effectively.
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>> Condx were "OK" -not great but certainly not terrible. Wish we could 
>> have gone longer.
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>> At the end of the day, we all agreed that the KX3 is a real winner. It's 
>> moved the art and science of QRP ahead by a giant step.
>> 
>> We accomplished our goals - We had a great deal of fun, got some 
>> publicity for a historic ship, and called attention to QRP by 
>> demonstrating that "it works."
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>> We probably could have made many more QSOs but only one (1) of us 
>> (Ulrich) is of that caliber. Tony and I are just common ragchewers and 
>> we admit to being sort of clumsy when it comes to keeping up with the 
>> hand-logging while trying to field the next call.
>> 
>> The Begali "Adventure" prototypes, both iambic and mono, were a joy to 
>> use. We accumulated some additional input for Piero to consider as he 
>> brings the paddle forward toward production. One of the guest operators 
>> fell in love with both the KX3 and the Begali mono paddle. He was left 
>> handed and easily accomodated by swiveling the paddle from 45 degrees 
>> right to 45 degrees left and then retightening it. I thought I'd 
>> never get my rig back!
>> 
>> Here's a video in which you can catch a glimpse of the Begali 
>> "Adventure" prototypes.
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b_cXOyiskU
>> 
>> 73, Stan WB2LQF
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