The APF discussion is awesome, and I'm blown away that the K3 will be upgraded with it, and it's going to be a great tool, and I don't mean to rain on the parade, but my use of it will be limited to DXing and maybe occasional general use, but probably *not* contest use.
Why? Too many controls to remember, too fast a pace to turn it on and off and tune it in the elapsed time of one contact. No way would I leave it on while running. I'm good at using the existing controls to do what I have to do to dig a signal out. The trend in contesting is going *away* from having your hands on the radio. I suspect that APF might be too much of a hands-intensive tool when you're at 80 Q's per hour or higher. I would be willing to bet that if you polled FT-1000 contesters that a vast majority of them do not use APF *during a contest*. Of course, now I'll get a whole slew of responses to the contrary, but I'll stand by my comment about the majority. So I am reading with interest, although discussion of APF in the context of contesting, stations calling off frequency, etc., is not relevant to me, nor, I suspect, to many others. Al W6LX ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
