Hey Wayne et al, I used the K3 and K3/0 mini combo along with the RRC boxes to operate the ARRL 10m contest remote from K2LE's contest station in Vermont.
Wayne, I was interested in your QSK comments. I was using QSK on the remote, and it was working pretty well. I notice, however, two strange things with QSK, both remote and local... At any speed, if I engage the RIT or go split, the QSK sounds very different. At 40wpm and above, the sidetone is not clean -- it seems to clip. I know, however, that the generated CW is just fine. Is this something that the beta firmware will take care of? BTW, for those of you who are contemplating CW contesting remotely using the K3+RemoteRig, you can be rest assured that it performs flawlessly. Latency is not an issue. Here's a snapshot of my rate analysis for the contest: The best 60 minute rate was 196/hour from 1249 to 1348 The best 30 minute rate was 220/hour from 1319 to 1348 The best 10 minute rate was 270/hour from 1330 to 1339 The best 1 minute rates were: 6 QSOs/minute 4 times. 5 QSOs/minute 9 times. 4 QSOs/minute 74 times. 3 QSOs/minute 143 times. 2 QSOs/minute 172 times. 1 QSOs/minute 167 times. So, remote is exactly like being there! In this operation, K2LE station end is 1.5Mbps DSL, my end 105Mbps cable. 73. Gerry Hull, W1VE | Hancock, NH USA AKA: VE1RM | VY2CDX | VO1CDX | 6Y6C | 8P9RM <http://www.yccc.org> <http://www.yccc.org/> <http://www.facebook.com/gerryhull> <https://plus.google.com/+GerryHull/posts> <http://www.twitter.com/w1ve> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:58 AM Subject: [Elecraft] ARRL 10-m contest To: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> Hi all, I only had an hour or so of contest time, but the band was in great shape and I worked everyone I called in both SSB and CW mode (35 QSOs in 19 states). Just to make it more challenging, I kept power set to 5.0 watts, and used my 6-meter antenna exclusively (not a typo--yes, this was on 10 meters). It's a pair of 6-meter hamsticks forming a dipole, supported by a push-up mast at about 20'. It's fed with LMR400 coax, then connected to the K3, which has a KAT3 ATU. The ATU can tune this antenna on 20-6 meters. While it certainly isn't very efficient on bands below 6 meters, it was good enough to have some fun in the contest. I was using the latest K3 firmware (rev. 5.01), which has excellent QSK audio characteristics as reported by those using this field-test release. 73, Wayne N6KR ______________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
