I managed to work them on 10 meter CW @ 5 watts at a much faster
rate (30 wpm) than my best rate (about 10 WPM) thanks to the CW
decode and CW memories built into the K3. I entered my call and
the exchange into the K3 at my sending rate and then turned the
speed up to keep up with their QSO rate. Seeing my call come up
on their very useful web site confirmed that it all worked.
I did have to read their CW by ear because the decode was spotty
and slower than their QSO rate. It helped, but using it still
seems like cheating.
I also worked them on SSB at 12 watts from California.
Both QSOs were a blast.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
On 3/9/13 at 1:00 AM, [email protected] (Dyarnes) wrote:
...
The real kick in the pants is working them on RTTY without a
computer! That feature in the K3 (and the KX3) is sooooo
cool! This time around I just loaded a couple of memories with
the ID info and the report info. I've done it with direct
paddle input in the past, but using the memories makes it a
snap on DX stuff. ...
The TX5K website is pretty slick! You can see confirmation of
your QSO within just a minute or two. These DXpeditions get
fancier all the time with this logging info.
Anyway, I had fun. Hope a lot of other folks did too.
Dave W7AQK
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