[Elecraft] KX3 FD Operations?

[David Ek]

John N0HJ and Steve N0MHQ joined me Saturday afternoon on the deck of 
our recently-purchased home in the mountains of Woodland Park, CO to 
make a few FD contacts with my KX3. First time I've had the chance to 
get on HF since last fall, thanks to all the activities associated with 
selling one house and then buying and moving into another. John brought 
his pneumatic launcher which did a wonderful job of putting a line over 
a tree near the deck and hoisting my half-size G5RV in an inverted V 
configuration. I ran the KX3 off a gel cel at about 10W and made mostly 
CW contacts but also a few on SSB, all on 20 m. Had a real pipeline to 
CA early, but then bagged a few east coast stations later in the day. I 
think the three of us (and my wife) spent as much time yakking as we did 
operating, but it was a great afternoon. The KX3 was a dream to operate, 
although all I did was spin the tuning knob and occasionally tweak the 
filter.

73, Dave NK0E

On 6/30/2015 4:38 PM, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net 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