[Elecraft] In praise of the sub Rx & Diversity - Addendum

[Gary Smith]

Folks,

I thought I should also share these 
additional thoughts about diversity & 
Elecraft, the company as well, with the 
group: 

It is such an oasis to find a company that 
not only makes top quality equipment but 
has a fantastic after sale support of 
these products.

I Loved my K3, wanted a K3s and sold the 
K3 to a friend who wanted one for mobile 
contesting, with me buying a K3s to 
replace it. Feeling remorse at selling the 
K3 & having to use a Corsair II as my only 
backup rig, I bought another (very old) 
but fully updated K3 for a backup in case 
I have to send my new K3s back for repair.

I don't hear much about the Diversity 
option mentioned here often and thought 
I'd bring up how much of an advantage it 
can be, even with all the stand-alone 
stats of a K3s. Diversity still makes the 
K3 and now, the K3s an even better, more 
capable radio. If you want the best of the 
best, Diversity gives you that option.

73,

Gary
KA1J


> When I bought the k3 in 09 I went all out 
> and bought most of the accessories to go 
> with it. One of these was the sub Rx and a 
> full matching set of crystals for it. As 
> upgrades happened I did them all and 
> wasn't using the Sub Rx in diversity so 
> much but, the advantage of the Sub Rx was 
> always there with flexibility I take for 
> granted.
> 
> So I upgrade to the K3s and migrated the 
> sub Rx to it as well. I just don't think 
> of diversity much but that was one of the 
> reasons I bought the Sub Rx in the first 
> place. With the 3 dB loss going to 
> Diversity, I just listened more with the 
> main receiver and let it go from there.
> 
> So today I'm working a ve7 on 10M and the 
> band is going out. I can hear him but it's 
> at that marginal iffy point, I was missing 
> characters in his CW. I have a HI-Z 
> triangular & a circle 8 pair of Rx 
> antennas. The Circle 8 rocks on the low 
> bands, has a filter to cut out above 40M 
> but the triangular has no such filter and 
> I often hear better on it than on the the 
> roof mounted tribander. So for fun, I used 
> diversity and the triangular on the sub, 
> 160 sloper for the Tx antenna & Voilà, I 
> heard him so much better, finished the Q 
> and that reminded me of the real advantage 
> of diversity and why it is an asset.
> 
> So now it's tonight, I see 3C0L is still 
> on the air at around 3AM their time, on 
> 20M. They're heading home today and the 
> low band antenna is packed up already. 
> What troupers to still be in the game at 
> this point. But I digress... So here they 
> are, I don't have a good antenna for 20M, 
> have to use the 160M antenna or tribander. 
> RFI from the neighbors makes the tribander 
> useless so I hear them on the sloper and 
> can hear them on the Hi-Z Triangular a bit 
> better but much QSB so remembering the 
> success with the VE7 earlier I go 
> Diversity & all of a sudden, solid Q5 
> copy, no QSB and I snagged them on 20 CW.
> 
> Diversity really made the difference. I 
> bought the K3s because it had such 
> excellent specs, nothing else to me came 
> close, save for 1-2 radios that in 09 were 
> hot and cost more than a new car. And they 
> weren't any better in practicality than 
> the K3 was. I bought the Sub Rx for the 
> diversity and now today, while the K3s is 
> itself stellar in all the right ways, it 
> is an a better product with the Sub Rx. 
> I'm really honored to have such an 
> incredibly capable radio.
> 
> Just sayin'
> 
> 73,
> 
> Gary
> KA1J
> 
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