[Elecraft] KX3 in the ARRL International DX contest

[K3WWP]

Mike KC2EGL and I (John K3WWP) gave my KX3 (S/N 2325) a workout in the ARRL
DX Contest also. I'd work a station, then Mike would work the same station
in kind of a "two op two call one rig" operation or as we call it, "tag team
operation". Between the two of us we made 599 contacts in 67 DXCC entities.
Power was 5 watts for all contacts using my attic random wire, 20m attic
dipole, 15m vertical dipole on the side of my house, or 10m dipole on my
porch roof. We only worked a couple Asian stations (RC9O, C4N), but that was
good enough for a weekend QRP WAC for which Mike got his NAQCC QRP Simple
Wire Antennas WAC award.

As a veteran of over 1,000 contests, I can say the KX3 tops any other rig
I've ever used in contesting. Only a couple times in the whole contest
(about 20 hours in our case) did we hear more than one signal in the
passband (other than big pileups, I mean). There was virtually never any
splatter into the passband from super strong signals even those only a few
hundred Hertz away. I think the couple times we did hear any was because the
other station's transmitter was at fault, not the KX3 receiver.


* John K3WWP - 100% CW / QRP - Proudly promoting Morse Code:
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* On the air with my KX3 #2325, K2 #6418, KX-1 #02101
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* As NAQCC VP - # 0002 FC # 1 - http://naqcc.info/
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* As FISTS Keynote QRP Columnist - # 2002 - http://www.fists.org/
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* With my CW-QRP site - http://home.windstream.net/johnshan/