[Elecraft] [LF] 474.2 KHz - Experiment #3

[Fred Jensen]

First off, thanks to all who are following this set of tests, and for 
all the advice and guidance.  It's been invaluable.  I am not 
transmitting - not sure the K3 will actually do that, and at any rate I 
don't have an experimental license for that "band" and I'm way too old 
for the "Gated Community for the Ethically Challenged."  It's not likely 
I will transmit there any time soon.

Tonight's experiment:  I'm going to catalog the NDB's [and other 
identifiable signals] I can hear with my headphones in CW and near-CW 
bandwidths using a different [much bigger but not-so-vertical] set of 
conductors in the air for the antenna.

Before bed, I'll start WSPR, turn on spotting, and we'll see what 
appears when the sun comes up.

So far on CW at roughly 30-35 WPM full QSK, with KPA500, the new 
synthesizer is living up to the claims.  I no longer hear any artifacts 
in the keying, and when I record it on another receiver, it sounds 
totally clean.  Haven't done SSB yet.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
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