I don't get it to be honest. Why is there an obsession with 1500w? Seriously, I do not believe I have 'missed' working a popular DX party because I DON'T have 1500w to play with. I do know that I can be heard amongst the cacophony of noise in a pileup. Does that make me work harder?....sure it does, but I still get the same thrill of the contact and I don't have as much qrm issues in VK either......it's all relative? I like my no nonsense kpa500, no more tuning up issues, no expensive amp ir tubes, instant on etc Yep I have had a big tube amp in the past and I genuinely don't miss it, really. So yes I do enjoy my k-line and I have Wayne and Eric to thank for letting me enjoy my wireless....grin Gary
-----Original Message----- From: "brian" <[email protected]> Sent: 1/02/2016 12:58 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Love me K3 line The question is why you worked 15 ATNO's. It may be totally unrelated to the K LINE. One thing for sure you can't defeat the laws of physics. 1500 W -> 500 Watts is a 4.5 dB loss. That is huge in a pileup. So tell me how the K LINE makes up for that loss and then some. 73 de Brian/K3KO On 2/1/2016 2:39 AM, Phil Wheeler wrote: > It might be difficult to find anyone here to disagree with you about the > K3 system, Paul :-) > > 73, Phil W7OX > > On 1/31/16 5:09 PM, Paul VanOveren wrote: >> I have worked both S Sandwich and S. Georgia Islands on 4 bands and CW >> and >> SSB for ATNOs, # 343 and 344 for my DXCC credits. When I sold my Alpha >> 374 >> 3 holer amp and purchased the KPA 500 I was somewhat concerned about the >> pwr output difference. However I have worked probably 15 ATNOs since the >> switch and have NOT missed working any station that I have wanted to >> work. >> The P3 w/SVGA added is a great tool, particulary on CW, looking for a >> hole >> to call in when the DX is listening 5 to 20 Kcs up... >> >> NF8J >> Paul > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
