Thanks Dick for the new one on 6. You guys are doing a great job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBF3Q4xrnjA
K3 to K3 Q?
Can you give a little info on the protoype preamp? external? how is it
powered? pics?
ok ok, you can answer all that when 6 dies down ;)
Thanks!
Lee
WW2DX
On Jul 1, 2008, at 5:19 AM, Dick Hanson wrote:
Ciao, from CY0X, Sable Island.....
Well, let's see now, is the K3 sensitive enuff for serious weak sig
work on
six.
Based on our first week here on Sable, doing mostly weak signal
work, I
could not be more pleased.
We were fortunate to have been given one of the prototype preamps to
use
ahead of the radio on six, and I can tell you that it has been an
excellent
addition.
We have been monitoring many of the EU TV offsets, world-wide
beacons and of
course listening for many of the signals from across the pond.
Consider this: we are running approx 800 watts into a 12dbd ant at
70' ASL,
surrounded by salt water; we have zero man-made noise towards EU, AF
and
Asia, so we are hearing very well. Many of the stations we are
working in EU
do not have as much power or antenna; hence many of them hear us
better than
we hear them. Yet, we have logged nearly 2500 contacts thus far in
60 dxcc.
My conclusion is that we are not suffering from a hearing loss.
Since it is so easy to switch out the outboard preamp, we have
frequently
done this on some of the weak sigs just to see if we could still
hear them.
In many cases we could hear them Q5 with just the internal preamp.
Ian,
GM3SEK, et al, have pointed out that the stock radio NF is somewhere
in the
8-10db range, which is not stellar as six meter radio specs go.
Nonetheless,
you'd be surprised at how many weak sigs we can still hear with only
the
internal preamp engaged.
I also have the XV50, and will keep it, but that is because I tend
to keep
my radio gadgets a long time.
FWIW: we love the K3 and how it performs on six. Hopefully, we have
already
worked a number of you. If you haven't yet made contact, please
check our
website at www.cy0x.com and then stop by 50108 and give us a call.
73,
Dick
K5AND/CY0X
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