This was my station. I appreciate the suggestion and will see what we can do next year to increase the Man-Cave effect.
Thanks for producing such a quality rig. It was a joy to use and was very popular with our GOTA operators. -----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick Sent: Friday, June 30, 2023 3:45 PM To: Michael Dinkelman <mwd...@gmail.com> Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Field Day Operation Great photos, Mike. Half a dozen screens that size, plus some duct tape, would make a sturdy man-cave. Wayne > On Jun 30, 2023, at 3:14 PM, Michael Dinkelman <mwd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > K4D in operation at the Mike & Key GOTA station > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/q9T96tUYEwVQhtaq9 > https://photos.app.goo.gl/KV3ChVQ7JJSa8vsf9 > https://photos.app.goo.gl/wJrLrryYkPrh7t1C8 > > > > On 6/30/2023 12:40 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote: >> Eric, >> >> I promised Margaret some 'in action' K4D Field Day pictures. I haven't >> forgotten, just been very busy in the aftermath of our 4A Field Day effort >> this year so far. >> >> We've tried running 'cheap' GOTA stations over the previous few years, and >> except for a Kenwood TS-590S, everything else we've tried in the $1K-2K >> price category (or below) suffered badly from the other stations we were >> running at our FD site. An ICOM IC-7300 last year and an IC-7610 >> (surprisingly) this year both suffered from frontend overload. >> >> Considering the typical experience level of GOTA operators, trying to copy >> SSB when is it being interrupted continuously by the nearby CW station is >> very frustrating, and certainly not the kind of experience we'd like to give >> our GOTA station visitors. >> >> This year, after trying the IC-7610, we pulled it and subbed in my K3s/P3 >> that I had been holding in reserve in case my K4D didn't hold up. I'm happy >> to report my K4D ran with flying colors as our multi-band CW station (80M at >> night, 20M-10M during the day). >> >> We also ran two other K3/P3 stations (with upgraded LOs, etc), one on 40M >> CW, and the other on 40M SSB, and the last station ran multi-band SSB and >> FT8 digital and was a Yaesu FTdx101d (superhet architecture with 'vctune' >> frontend). I did notice a slight increase in my noise floor on my K4D when >> the Yaesu was running FT8 on the same band, but it really didn't effect our >> operation. Considering that 20M CW was on about 14.030 and FT8 on 14.074, we >> were relatively close to each other, but operated peacefully with out >> interference. >> >> My experience with K3's running 2.8 kHz or narrower roofing filters, we >> could get within 10-20 kHz of another station before we noticed any >> interference, and that was mainly due to the Tx IMD of the other stations. >> The K4D, without K4HD roof filters, seemed to tolerate getting within about >> 20 kHz before noticeable interference. Ditto for the Yaesu with it's >> roofing filter and 'vctune' technology. >> >> We topped 2000 contacts this year, with the CW stations making the majority >> of the contacts. We have some very good CW operators in the club, and they >> are 'QSO machines' on the Elecraft radios. >> >> 73, >> -- Dave, N8SBE >> >> On 2023-06-26 10:59, Wayne Burdick wrote: >>> Thanks for your comments, Eric. >>> >>> Note that the K4 shares the same pedigree, and weighs only 2 pounds more, >>> for the same reasons. >>> >>> 73, >>> Wayne >>> N6KR >>> 2A SCV ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to gthorn...@thorntonmostullaw.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
