[Elecraft] K3 - A word of thanks

[Wayne Burdick]

Our pleasure, Cary. Thanks for the report!

Did you also try APF on this signal?

73,
Wayne
N6KR

On Mar 9, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Carey Magee <arsk2rny at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Eric, Wayne and all the folks on this reflector.
> 
> I have been a relicensed HAM since 2006 and am by no means a big or even
> medium gun.  No towers, just wires and a vertical.  I do not contest a lot
> but am an active DX'er.
> 
> Last night, I was trying to get E30FB into my log for #299.  In today's
> current state of DX'peditions, DQRM appeared, very persistantly I might
> add, on the DX transmit frequency (20M, CW).  The DQRM was not exactly zero
> beat but real, real close.
> 
> By using the 100hz filter setting (I have the 250Hz filter in both
> receivers) and shifting just ever so slightly I was able to hear them come
> back to my call and I was able to successfully make the contact.  This is
> over a S5 DQRM almost exactly zero beat!!  I honestly wonder if I could
> have done that with a different radio.
> 
> Thanks to the both of you for designing and building a very good radio and
> thanks to the folks on this reflector whose posts I read and get lots of
> good op tips from.
> 
> 
> 73,
> Carey Magee, K2RNY
> Rochester New York
> Grid: FN13ef
> arsk2rny at gmail.com