I gave my presentation on the Friday prior to Field Day. I had a couple of questions on clarifications and afterwards several hams came up to me and thanked me because they felt it was a big help. I especially focused on the TAP/HOLD differences and the fact that most functions are clearly marked. I noted that ergonomically the layout of the K3 has similar functions in the same general area on the panel.
So the result on Field Day this year was that the several operators who used my K3 felt much more comfortable with it. I did need to answer a couple of queries on the fly but over all most of the ops enjoyed using my K3 and P3. One of the most timid of last years ops told me she really felt that the K3 was pretty easy to use now that she understood the TAP/HOLD functions. In fact she would consider an Elecraft product next time she was in the market. Most of the ops really loved the P3 and it's ability to easily hunt and pounce. I showed a couple of hams how easy it was to be running on a frequency and hunt and pounce using the 2nd receiver on the same band. That totally amazed a couple of people. As a bonus, our club has 2 Kenwood 930s, one of which is having issues. So next year, we will probably be using not only my K3, but my KX3 with the 100W amp for a second station. Retiring one of the 930s (thankfully) since they have no filtering..... As with several FD operations we can run CW and SSB on any band at the same time. The K3 output is very clean, not causing any RFI issues (as expected). The 930s do not cause RFI in the K3, even though they have issues with each other on some bands. -- John Fritze Jr K2QY AARA president 2013 ACACES secretary 2013 Albany County RACES Radio Officer ARES ENY DEC Northern District Hudson Div. Asst. Director Twitter: @k2qy ______________________________________________________________ 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
