Page 40 is the assignment tonight. :-) I did not know this existed.
Don KD8NNU On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote: > When I was a teenage novice in the early 1970's, armed only with a > Heathkit HW-16, 15 meters became my favorite band. It was a reliable > source of DX contacts even when my entire antenna system was a > multiband inverted-V a few feet off the roof. > > 15 m, as well as the other "high" HF bands (12 m, 10 m), can be > sparsely populated at times, even when they're open. In the old days > that meant tuning the VFO up and down, searching endlessly. But the K2 > and K3 have a SCAN feature that lets the radio do the work, while you > answer email, work on homebrew projects, clean up the shack, etc. > > I was reminded of this about half an hour ago. A quick check of 15 m > revealed no signals, so I set up a background (muted) scan from > 21.000-21.060 on the K3. A few minutes later the scan stopped at > 21.026, where PJ2/KE1B was calling CQ. Since he had just started > calling, there was no pileup, and I made the QSO on one call. > > For scanning instructions, see page 40 of the K3 owner's manual or > page 103 of the K2 manual. > > Let me know what pops up. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
