Neat site but unfortunately none of the audio clips demonstrate the pileups heard at dx locations like C6AAW. Once again this year the K3s AGC failed to perform adequately for us. I found many times I just had to turn AGC off. Signals were much cleaner and more distinguishable. I think there are two things going on. First, I think the threshold cannot be set high enough. The maximum is around S3 according to my measurements. Thus, when you have a pileup of signals all in the S3, S4, S5 region, which is common, AGC is compressing them together. When AGC is off, these signals are now in a linear region of the transfer curve and can be distinguished more easily. Second, and this is hard for me to judge since it has been a while since I've used an analog audio processing radio like the TS850, the audio doesn't sound "good". I dunno. I think there is an inherent harshness(?) to digitally produced audio as compared to analog audio. I'm not an audio guy, for sure.
Sadly, I suspect top contesters are beginning to look for another radio to replace the K3 :-( 73, Fred KE7X/C6AKX/C6AAW -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul VanOveren Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 6:16 AM To: elecraft reflector Subject: [Elecraft] Fw: CQ WW DX Contest CW 2011 - Unofficial claimed scores Russian website with claimed scores from last weekend. Very cool video embedded from HI3A, with 2 K3"s prominently displayed... you can look up your score in the search box, for your ranking in the World, North America or just USA.... Subject: CQ WW DX Contest CW 2011 - Unofficial claimed scores http://pileup.ru/cqww_cw.php?year=2011 ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
