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

[Phil Wheeler]

Agree re commercial messages of dubious merit. I 
have a 400 and a 1000. Gee, that averages to 700 
so I must be really clever :-)

Phil w7ox

On 3/1/14, 11:20 AM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
> 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)
>
>
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