[Elecraft] [K3] Perfect for Field Day S&P ... Limited Production 700 Hz 8-Pole Filters

[Wes (N7WS)]

This seems like an increasingly commercial trend cluttering up this list, with 
dubious claims to boot.

I guess that I'm not a "savvy operator" since I use the discredited 400 Hz 
filter and manage to get by.

Apparently, 700 Hz is a magical bandwidth, just as 43 feet is a magical length 
for a vertical antenna.

Who knew?

Wes  N7WS


On 3/1/2014 12:27 AM, Gary W. Hvizdak wrote:
> Unless you have a panadapter, you'll never work weak stations, if you can't
> hear them because they're outside your passband!  (This is the beauty of 700
> Hz!)  In fact, many seasoned Elecraft K3 owners feel that using the radio's
> 400 Hz default (NORM) CW passband setting, is kind of like "viewing the
> world thru a drinking straw while riding a bicycle".  That is, it would be
> fairly easy to skip right past a weak calling station, without ever
> realizing it was there.
>
> But even more importantly, prolonged scanning with a 400 Hz passband can be
> tedious and fatiguing.  This is why, band conditions permitting, savvy
> operators prefer a 700 Hz passband:
>
> o   "for general CW tuning" -- W3FPR
> o   "for scanning the band (or a pileup)." -- K8GU
> o   "for combing through the pileups with VFO [B]" -- NI0C
> o   "to cruise the CW bands from a wider perspective" -- N1LQ
[commercial snipped to spare the reader]

73,
Gary  KI4GGX
(webmaster)