[Elecraft] Why is KX3 phase noise so much less than the K3 ?

[Bill Frantz]

Our field day has been all Elecraft for the last couple of years 
with mostly K3s and a scattering of K2s. Last year we ran 9A QRP 
battery + GOTA (+ satellite). We had antennas which allowed us 
to run CW, SSB and Digital on the same band and had no 
significant mutual interference. (We work hard to keep our 
antennas in each others nulls, and being a west coast station, 
always point them east.)

The bigest interference problem was phase noise from another 
club's operation about 1/2 mile away. They were running 100 
watts with I-K-Y gear.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 4/2/14 at 8:23 AM, w3fpr at embarqmail.com (Don Wilhelm) wrote:

>That is why I try to encourage the local Field Day group to use 
>only Elecraft gear.  Even though we do not typically operate 
>more than one transceiver on a single band, the YKI types can 
>cause problems on other harmonically related bands.  We used to 
>have a Yaesu FT-900 on SSB, and it caused problems.
>Typically we are class 2A with a GOTA station.

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