[Elecraft] CQ WW Contest

2009-10-29 Thread Hector Padron
I entered this past contest mainly to test my K3,not wishing to win any award,just took it easy but I checked at qrz any single station I contacted with  and guess what,about 30% of them were using K3's at the contest. Friend of mine from Miami,I will not mention his name not to make the other

Re: [Elecraft] CQ WW Contest

2009-10-29 Thread Fred Atchley
Hector Padron wrote: Snip My K3 behaved better than expected, I had no problem at all pulling out from a very crowded band and close to the big guns weak stations with signals of 55 to 57,I used all the time my roofer of 2.1 End snip Like Hector I enjoy contesting. Due to CCR's, I'm limited

[Elecraft] CQ WW Contest

2009-10-24 Thread Hector Padron
What a delight is to work a contest with this K3,I took a brake after almost continuos 20 hours as single op multiband operation. Radio is just little warm after keeping it up and running that long.. Selectivity in this radio is what make it shine,there are thousand stations in all bands from

[Elecraft] CQ WW contest last weekend

2005-06-01 Thread Eberhart, Russell
I was at a cabin at Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland over the past weekend; no way to get on the Internet until today. I ran my KX1, at first on internal batteries, then from my car battery. Antenna was a 42-foot wire thrown up in a pine tree, with a 16-foot counterpoise. Included in 35