Yes, it can be good enough for contesting. I ran one CW Sprint with it and it was adequate. I had to run low power because the amp wasn't yet accessible remotely (It is now.) and I was single-radio. So my 218 Qs is hard to compare to the 280-310 that I would have expected locally, high power and SO2R. But most importantly, I didn't feel that latency was much of an issue. That's surprising because of the rapid turnover at the end of each QSO in a Sprint.
No, I haven't measured the latency in msec but my ping times are 30-80 msec. More to the point, if I turn up the remote monitor so I hear both local and remote, then send a V at 30 wpm, I hear the local monitor V followed by a tail ranging from U to a short T. Most of the time I hear an A or a full T. I'm using a full K3 as the Control head, not a K3/0. There shouldn't be any difference. More important than perceived latency is quality of the received audio stream. Mine has pops and crackles. On a good day, it will be one pop of maybe 50 msec every few minutes and I consider that acceptable. On a bad day, it's bursts of 3 to 6 such pops in one second, several times a minute, often obliterating a code element or most of a character each burst and I consider that unusable for contesting. Others do not experience this and I'm trying to track it down. I suspect lost UDP packets but haven't been able to determine even which side is responsible. Remote operation is a lot of fun when it works. I wish I could get it to work all the time! 73, /Rick On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Brian Linn <[email protected]> wrote: > All: > > > > Has anyone measured the latency when using the K3/0 to run a remote K3? Is > it good enough for contesting? > > > > 73' Brian KD0HII > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- Rick Tavan N6XI Truckee, CA ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
