[Elecraft] PX3: Use outside in bright sunlight

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Tue Jan 15 16:45:39 EST 2019


Our club has its summer picnic during the NAQP SSB contest. We 
set up a radio with the logging laptop inside a 15"-20" deep 
cardboard box on a picnic table in the full August sun. We don't 
have significant issues reading the laptop screen.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 1/15/19 at 12:35 PM, kl7uw at acsalaska.net (Edward R Cole) wrote:

>I've wondered how well the PX3 screen displays in bright 
>sunlight.  I Use my KX3-2M as IF for my portable 10-GHz station 
>and display of spectrum would be handy for finding mw signals.  
>But this is activity on a high hill or mountain or 
>lake/oceanside location (not in a darkened vehicle or your home).
>
>Typical LCD laptops screens are unusable in bright light so 
>wonder about the PX3.  Not interested in the P3 for my K3, just 
>the PX3.
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