This field day myself and a friend are loading my K3/P3 in the truck and going up to the high desert in way northern-california. We plan on running 1A on battery/generator.
Any helpful K3 protips for field day would be appreciated. :) This thread makes me want to make a list of stations running K3's for FD so I can give a shout-out to my fellow Elecraft brethren if we QSO. Frank KG6EYC On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Jim Brown <[email protected]>wrote: > On 4/24/2014 9:25 AM, george fritkin via Elecraft wrote: > >> If any of you guys have both,which combo would you take >> > > The last two Field Days I've been part of a group that runs either 1A > battery or 2A battery from solar power, and we run 5W. Although there are > several KX3s in the group, we choose to run K3s so we can use P3s. The K3s > need a bit more current than the KX3s, so if you're pinched for solar > power, the KX3 would be the better choice. Also, I'm a member of a big > contesting club, and several of our members report that the KX3 performs > quite well in a contesting environment. > > One important caveat though -- don't even think of running SSB QRP on > Field Day. We learned that the hard way last year. We could run rates of 70 > Qs per hour on CW, but were lucky to do 5 an hour on SSB. > > 73, Jim K9YC > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] > -- CW: NAQCC #6554 | SKCC #10435 | FISTS #16155 | SOC #1038 | FPQRP #3186 Digital: FHC #4224 | 30MDG #6370 | DMC #5698 Gear: K3 #7164 | P3 #3134 | KX3 #1787 http://vadept.com ______________________________________________________________ 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]
