From: Bill Frantz [via Elecraft] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 12:53 AM To: Peter W2IRT Subject: Re: Skimmer and the K3S
Peter - Thanks for your comments. I knew that ham radio was a very big tent, but I didn't know that building a station was a goal in and of itself for some hams. My view of the tent has gotten bigger. [pjd] You're quite correct about the big tent and yes indeed there's a place for everybody. In my younger days I enjoyed kits to some degree but not anymore. I prefer to buy high-end gear, good antennas so on, then combine all that hardware with functional software and squeeze every scrap of performance out of my station that I can. I'm not an emcommer at all, and I treat Field Day like any other contest (i.e. one (small) step short of a blood sport). I love CW although I'm not particularly good at it. I dislike SSB due to the lid factor and those few times I'm on digital it's usually RTTY for HF DX or JT-65 for 6m VUCC grids or new DXCC entities. I love the thrill of the chase and running in a contest. To me, any Q longer than about 5 seconds is too long <grin>, and Rate Is King. CQWW and ARRL-DX are the highlights of my ham radio year, as are the ARRL And CQ 160m contests and DXpeditions to top-10 entities. My K3S allows me to do *almost* anything I want, but the limitations I've put forth earlier in this thread are also pretty substantial and something I was hoping to overcome. My understanding is now a lot clearer, and some kind of true SDR like a QS1R or similar will need to be added to give me the true versatility I'm after. And for as much as a Flex 6700 appeals to me, I think I'm going to stick with what I have until I end up losing too many pileup battles or I find I'm at too much of a disadvantage in CQWW/ARRL-DX. - pjd ----- Lovin' my K3S (S/N 10023) 73, Peter W2IRT -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Skimmer-and-the-K3S-tp7622100p7622246.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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]
