[Elecraft] Field Day (Late Response)

[Rich]

I found myself in the middle of nowhere in WV the day after FD, no phone 
or internet.  That was actually kind of nice!  So I missed the parade of 
FD comments.

For the past 10 - 12 years I have operated FD at our clubhouse (nice 
radios and antennas but no Elecraft stuff) which is always fun, but this 
year I decided I wanted to do FD with my K3S and K3s.

Wow!

My antennas consist of wires and verticals, that is it.  I only ran 
SSB.  I was amazed how weak signals just popped out of the noise.   Even 
the "soft talkers".   I had absolutely no trouble making Qs with the 
weakest of the weak.  In laymen terms, the audio seems to sit right on 
top of the noise.  I actually ran some really high Q rates which is not 
always easy to do on FD.

Hats off to the folks at Elecraft.

Rich

K3RWN