[Elecraft] KX3 FD Operations?

[Ray Sills]

Yours truly ran his KX3 at 5 watts (battery) feeding an AlexLoop for  
antenna.  And, it did seem to me that band conditions were not that  
good, especially on 20 meters: skip was short and there seemed to be  
noise and QSB.  I spent most of my time on 40, even though the antenna  
is -least- efficient on that band.  But it worked well enough to log a  
couple dozen QSOs over about 4 or 5 hours of operating time.

My battery was one of the N1RX medical cart batteries, and it did a  
fine job.  Still have 75% capacity left.  I have a bunch of solar  
panels, but with the rotten WX... I never used them.

Even with the marginal conditions, it was fun to get on the air.  And,  
I'm more pleased than ever with my KX3!  It would have been nice to  
have a PX3, but even without it I did fine.  I did use a Ham Central  
Terminal for operating and logging.  Operating position lighting was  
by means of a Biolite PowerLight.  Did not need to deploy the "Nano  
Grid" extra lights.

73 de Ray
K2ULR
KX3 #211

On Jun 29, 2015, at 8:44 PM, James Bennett wrote:

> Wondering how many ops on this reflector had a KX3 station running  
> this past weekend in Field Day? I had mine running five watts, along  
> with a PX3, set up on our back patio. Ran a LiFePO4 battery and  
> solar panel, along with a half-sized G5RV in inverted Vee mode, apex  
> up 25 feet.
>
> Conditions weren't great here (25 miles east of Sacramento) but  
> still had fun and the KX3 performed quite well. The bulk of my QSO's  
> were made on 40 and 20 meters. A handful on 15 and four on 80  
> meters. I listened, but heard ZERO stations on 10 meters either day.  
> Ughhh....
>
> Jim Bennett / W6JHB (1E, SV)
> Folsom, CA
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