Mike KC2EGL and I (John K3WWP) gave my KX3 (S/N 2325) a workout in the ARRL DX Contest also. I'd work a station, then Mike would work the same station in kind of a "two op two call one rig" operation or as we call it, "tag team operation". Between the two of us we made 599 contacts in 67 DXCC entities. Power was 5 watts for all contacts using my attic random wire, 20m attic dipole, 15m vertical dipole on the side of my house, or 10m dipole on my porch roof. We only worked a couple Asian stations (RC9O, C4N), but that was good enough for a weekend QRP WAC for which Mike got his NAQCC QRP Simple Wire Antennas WAC award.
As a veteran of over 1,000 contests, I can say the KX3 tops any other rig I've ever used in contesting. Only a couple times in the whole contest (about 20 hours in our case) did we hear more than one signal in the passband (other than big pileups, I mean). There was virtually never any splatter into the passband from super strong signals even those only a few hundred Hertz away. I think the couple times we did hear any was because the other station's transmitter was at fault, not the KX3 receiver. * John K3WWP - 100% CW / QRP - Proudly promoting Morse Code: * * On the air with my KX3 #2325, K2 #6418, KX-1 #02101 * * As NAQCC VP - # 0002 FC # 1 - http://naqcc.info/ * * As FISTS Keynote QRP Columnist - # 2002 - http://www.fists.org/ * * With my CW-QRP site - http://home.windstream.net/johnshan/ ______________________________________________________________ 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
