A neighbor who lives just 300 yards away purchased and now operates an IC-7300. When he operates 40m CW, the phase noise occurs across the entire 40m band on my K3 with the upgraded synthesizer. You could never use an IC-7300 for Field Day on the same band with other radios.
OTOH, we had three K3's (prior to the upgraded synthesizer on 20m simultaneously. We only knew the others were active if we tuned to within 20 kHz or so of them. I was the the SSB team captain and had no problem on 20m as long as we didn't get "near" the GOTA station when it was on the same band. This was with the same physical distance I know face the IC-7300. Another IC-7300 over a mile away is very broad (20-30 kHz) when operated on 40m SSB. I often hear splatter 40 kHz up the band! While I tell people the IC-7300 is a great package for the price, I also tell them not to use it with big antennas or physically near other radios. Fortunately, I have no Yaesu HF rigs in active use in the neighborhood although I see their dirty signals in many contests. A used K3S is quite a bargain today! 73, Bill, K8TE -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.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]
