Hi All,
I will claim a little "K3 Mojo" here too. I've worked Ducie
Island now on all modes from 10 meters through 40 meters.
Not a great accomplishment you might say, considering that
they are stronger than horseradish on just about every band
and mode. But the real tricky part when I decided to
venture down further. I listened on 80 CW, and there they
were--nice signal too. But I only have an R8 Vertical,
which doesn't cover anything beyond 40 meters--supposedly.
Ah, but the K3 has a pretty good ATU in it. Pushed the
button to tune, and it said 1:1 at the low end of 80 meters.
Called the VP6 on CW and bingo! Pretty amazing I thought,
but have to give credit to their end more than mine.
This morning I thought I would listen on 160 just for kicks.
There they were again, and very Q5. You don't suppose
there's enough Mojo in this thing to tune on 160 do you?
Pushed the button, and it said 2.5:1. Well, with 100 watts
into that R8 it might be akin to QRP at the other end. So I
called on 1821 khz. Two calls was all it took to get them
on 160 CW! Amazing--at least to me!
I have now concluded that with K3's at both ends, you can
work them on any band with anything slightly better than a
wet piece of string! I sure hope they write a good article
for QST or whatever which describes their antenna setup in
some detail. Pretty impressive, not to mention that they
are all superb ops. I better start listening on 6 meters!
Dave W7AQK
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From: "K1DWZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:08 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] More K3 mojo
The K3 mojo is still working. I worked Ducie Island
again, this time on 20
meters SSB with my K3 and an Elecraft MH2 mic running 10
watts to a G5RV
antenna.
Ken K1DWZ
K3 #167
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