Agree, The K3 is stellar. Never any desensing in the presence of strong signals observed with my K3.
I have found nothing that compares. 73 de KE4WY Jim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Smith Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 receiver desensing on CW during contest Although my contesting this past weekend was severely interrupted by a non-K3 related hardware failure, over the course of the contest I did use the K3 throughout all day and night segments on various bands. I did not call CQ except for a very little bit and the majority was S&P on all bands except 10M which was for me, dead. There were the usual high powered stations crammed in tightly on all bands except for 15 where there were some spaces between CQs. I really put the K3 to the test with this one and made good use of the filtering and, considering the desensing thread have this observation to make: I noticed no desensing with the K3 in the presence of strong signals. I found that I was able to get rid of all but the most "dead on" of signals and those within those 50 Hz were not going to go away. Adjacent clicky signals were for the 99% of the time totally removed and for that "1%" of the time the clicks remained, I was able to pull in the faintest signals. I know I must have P.O.ed more than a few people as I would scroll up the band and work a strong station and within 1Khz, work two others that were faint but clearly identifiable. Some of those faint ones, I had to call them for them to know I was hearing them. Thing is,as I'd tune up with fine tuning, I kept hearing station overlaying another and I had to be QRMing most of these other stations including the ones I just worked and the ones I would be working next. If the K3 has a liability, to me, it is not in any way related to desensing in the presence of strong signals. My old Omni V was a fine CW Rx but was nowhere as good as the K3 and I can say the same for my Corsair II which will be my backup rig for life. The K3 is stellar. Gary KA1J Any spelling ewrrors are the result of my laptop's keyboard... :) ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
