[Elecraft] K3 PRE function question

[Edward R Cole]

Wayne and all:

A graphic example is my experience when I first arrived in Alaska to 
live in a small town of 75 people at end of 16-mile dead-end gravel 
road surrounded by the Chugach NF.  I rented a one-room cabin 14x16 
foot with a wood stove- that's all.  No electricity, no telephone, no 
running water, no toilet - just an outhouse.  Nearest electric power 
was 3-miles away.  Hooking up my battery operted TS-180S to a 80m 
dipole the s-meter did not budge off zero.  I could hear out to 
800-1000 mile everynight on 80m.  All HF bands were quiet.

Ten years later the electric utility extended lines to my property 
and I had both power and phone service.  Noise went up to 
S3.  Population of the town grew to 150 and the main road was paved.

Now I live about 100 miles west of there in a community of 4,000+ 12 
miles from a small city of 7,500.  80m runs S5 on a quiet day; 6m is 
also S5 noise floor.

So good luck finding that quiet place (beyond civilization)!  I live 
on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska with area about the same as Ireland 
and pop of 55,000.  Everyone has wireless junk so "there goes the 
neighborhood".

I still can hear the occasional ATV, dirt bike or  snowmachine pass 
by the house.

Next move is the backside of the Moon!  LOL
73, Ed - KL7UW

Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 10:51:41 -0800
From: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
To: Randy Farmer <w8fn at tx.rr.com>
Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 PRE function question
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This is why about half of our product line is intended for use 
outdoors, hopefully far from most noise sources. I?m always amazed to 
see noise drop from S6 to S0 on 20 meters, for example, when I hike 
up the hill at a park that?s a quarter mile from civilization.

If you do it often enough, you can cancel your gym membership :)

Wayne
N6KR


73, Ed - KL7UW
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