Hi David, We ( Vienna Wireless Society) have had multiple Elecraft K3s our for our field day. Did not seem any more difficult that other radios we have had out. I think there is a locked setting to limit amount of messing up the settings. We usually had someone around that knew how to reset the radios. But we had that sort of issue with a TenTec Orion and a FT-1000MP previous years. So no worse experience with K3s than any other radio brought out with those that did not own one.
We used mono-band antennas for 40m CW and SSB stations and multi band antennas for our other two stations. Had two sets of band pass filters but discovered the K3s were just fine without. We have also had a 3 band Spiderbeam up on a 15 meter mast for the non-40 SSB station which got us a nice signal to the West. we do not like multiband antennas in general. lately we have been using two element wire yagis pointed towards the West coast ( we are in Virginia). 73, tom n4zpt On 5/11/2012 12:29 PM, dm...@nexicom.net wrote: > I will have my k3 at Field Day this year and would like a little > advice. I will have the Yamaha cm500, a hand held mic plus a set > of paddles. It will have one multiband antenna. plus a will > periodically be connected to a beam when its available. > > Since it will also be used by several other ops that probably wont > know the K3 I would like to set it up as user friendly as possible and > lock out as much as possible in the menus to prevent it from being > messed up. > > What settings have others used in this situation. and what > precautions are there? and any other thoughts please. > > > > Please answer to the reflector and not directly to me. > David Moes > > VE3DVY > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
