[Elecraft] [K3] My K3 needs pimping

[George Fritkin via Elecraft]

I have several radios with dual receive, and I have several radios with a spectrum scope, and several radios that have both.  

My vote is the spectrum scope.  When you are saving your pennies for a second radio, save some more and buy a second radio. There is nothing like SO2R

George, W6GF

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> On Mar 9, 2015, at 2:25 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon,3/9/2015 9:24 AM, Don Putnick via Elecraft wrote:
>> Should my next purchase be a subreceiver or a panadapter, and why?
> 
> Buy the P3 first. Both are useful. My primary use for the 2nd RX is diversity reception, which requires two antennas. It's most useful on the lowest bands, especially 160 and 80, but also on 40. I also use it to listen on my TX frequency when running split in a pileup. That way, I know if there's a QSO there. I can also time my calls with another station in the same pileup on that frequency.
> 
> The P3 gives you a nice overview of the pileup, it allows you to monitor a "dead" band for activity (like 10M, 6M), it helps you identify RFI, it can even show you the bandwidth of dirty signals. In the E30FB pileup on 15CW this morning, K7RR was clicking almost 2 kHz wide, and the P3 clearly showed it.
> 
> On 6M, I set the P3 for 200 kHz (max width), to display 50.08 MHz to 50.280 MHz. This lets me monitor for CW, SSB, and JT65/JT9 activity. I've picked up a lot of rare grids in short openings that way. Last fall there was an opening to CX and PY I made four Qs in three grids!
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
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