[Elecraft] K3 & M/M Contest stations

[Stephen Bloom]

Ooooh D4C ...nice ...one of the best contest teams in the world! ...now
THERE is a place I'd love to operate from sometime.

73
Steve KL7SB


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Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 10:41 AM
To: Ray Sills
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 & M/M Contest stations


Hi Guys

We at D4C, get seriously the Contest, trying to win, last CQWW SSB and CW we
had 11 K3, with several different configuration, 6 were Main Radio and 5 (
10 to 80 ) were support Radio, with dual RX capability multidirectional RX
antennas and inBand Antenna too, all fitted into the several BNC input as
RX, or SUB RX input.

The comments of the over 25 ops, ( 14 of them will attend to the next WRTC
) was, amazing, no interference, antennas are located not far form 200 m
from the shack, no noise interference, integration of good filter, both in
TX and RX with the great capabilities of the K3's and flexible
multidirectional antennas, has created a great efficient MM station.

The configuration of all the K3 were identical, so operators can move
between bands, without worry about, equalizer, filters, or mic control, no
one had touched these configuration during the contest, because during the
contest ur are busy to run .

So as mentioned, DXped and or MM setup, are easy to do with K3, obviously u
still need to take care of the environment, including antennas, filters and
all other stuff that can help to have the right success.

73 de Fabio I4UFH / D4C SSB Team Leader


Il giorno 14/apr/2014, alle ore 20:30, Ray Sills <raysills3 at verizon.net> ha
scritto:

> Hi Keith:
> 
> I'd have to agree with Don.. and don't forget, some people just like to
participate in a contest.. for the fun of it, and perhaps working a "new
one" ... as opposed to trying to win the contest.  Those people would
probably do -just fine- with a stock K3 setup.  I'm sure I would.
> 
> 73 de Ray
> K2ULR
> KX3 #211
> 
> 
> On Apr 14, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> 
>> Keith,
>> 
>> That may be true, but if it is, each operator will know how to set it up
to his preferences.
>> I say again, if he does not know how to set it up, he should leave it
alone.  In the midst of a contest is not the time to be fiddling with things
to find out what each operator wants.  A bit of education and practice with
settings beforehand *can* make such operator changeovers smooth.
>> 
>> Perhaps your group can agree on some compromise settings that will work
suitably for all.
>> After all, DXPeditions using multiple operators seem to do something like
that with success.  Setting up for a contest should be no more difficult.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>> 
>> On 4/14/2014 1:54 PM, XE3/K5ENS wrote:
>>> Don,
>>> 
>>> No way could someone that was a real serious contester use the K3 
>>> with the stock settings and score anywhere near the points that 
>>> could be scored without changing the settings.  A stock K3 is NOT a 
>>> contest radio.  And I think that's where a lot of the cons about the 
>>> K3 happen.  There are several settings in the K3 that must be changed to
make the radio a contest radio.
>>> 
>>> Keith, XE3/K5ENS
>>> 
>> 
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