K3 #250 arrived after I had requested a delay due to my being away from
QTH until this past Thursday....Quickly got all set up and plug into 40m
dipole at friend's house in FL. Using club call W4YY, 1st qso was
barefoot to E74IW which is new ITU prefix assigned to previous T9...had
great fun playing with differnt knobs and referencing the manual....next
morning, up early and got T80W also on 40cw...heard him say qsy to 60m
channel and lo and behold, I could hear him calling CQ USA, wow! Never
heard dx on 60m before...unfortunately, rig did not come with ordered
ATU so not able to attempt qso. BARG rtty contest was on so waaay cool
to see the print out via TEXT DEC. Mostly used the speaker which sounded
'strong'; did notice some distortion when very loud signals were
blasting thru but fixed when turned down the volumne. Friend had Heil
ProSet headphones and noticed significant reduction in volume when those
were plugged in...had to really crank up the AF to get decent
copy...must be very different impedance? All together, very satisfying
experience. Would still like to see some sort of "primer" on the
operating of the "shift-lo-cut-hi-width" knobs. Be great to hear from
those who have tinkered with different settings and can recommend
different configs for different condx, i.e., 160m weak sig, cw contest,
ssb contest and general ragchew...(N6XI, W4ZV, you guys have some
suggestions?)
Now, back in CX land so will be on in WPX ssb this weekend, barefoot to
vertical dipoles and centerfed zepp/ladderline. Big test will be in May
WPX cw contest with amp/tower and 3 ele Steppir.
73
Tom
CX7TT
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