[Elecraft] K3 & M/M Contest stations

[Bill Coleman]

On Apr 14, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Stephen Bloom <sbloom at acsalaska.net> wrote:

> I have a K3 line at my home station ...and of course am a real fan.  I am often on the team at the KL7RA M/M station here.  We have an ongoing (good natured) dispute about whether the K3 is a feasible M/M rig (not because of quality, but because people are so personal in the way they like to have it configured).  I know I've had no problems at all using K3s in M/S ops.  I'm wondering if there are some serious mostly/all K3 M/Ms out there ..and if so ...if I could weasel an invite sometime when I'm not committed up here.  I can do pretty high rate on cw, don't eat much and am paper trained :)

NQ4I uses all Ten-Tec Orions (well, there’s one FT-1000MP on the 160m station) in his station. They have tried the K3, once on the 160m station, and once on one of the 15m stations.

The 15m rig ended the contest broken — apparently fried the front-end from all the ambient RF.

The Orions are OK. I really like the sound of the K3 way better.

Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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