Don, I was having some regrets with my purchase of the 1K filter. But was working my second K3which on has the stock filter and a 400Hz filter during one of the insane contest weekends a couple weeks ago and boy what a difference. It was particularly noticeable on 40M where there were simultaneous CW, RTTY and SSB activities occuring in the same spectrum.
For ragchewing and non-contest times, I agree with you. In congested contest situations, the roofing filters make a heck of a difference. Almost wish I had more slots now! ;o) 73, Julius n2wn Don Rasmussen wrote: > > The band openings of the last two days at this QTH have allowed a new > level of evaluation of K3. I'm mostly on 20m, with a hexbeam, and the last > couple days have provided a boost in band activity that I have not seen > since I got the transceiver 2 years ago. Of course there are some guys > that only got their K2's a couple years ago, they will be equally > impressed. > > I have still not encountered any scenario where the roofing filter (2.7 > and 1.0) improved my operation, the DSP seems as robust as I need it to be > for a modest gain antenna. > > This solar maximum will be different, the sideband frequencies will have > as much fidelity as AM or FM used to. I can still remember having guests > in the shack that could not decipher the monkey chatter OT the code. ;-) > K3 guys pick up a wider than 2.7 khz roofing filter to take best advantage > of this. > > > > Here it comes! > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > > ----- Julius Fazekas N2WN Tennessee Contest Group http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html Tennessee QSO Party http://www.tnqp.org/ Elecraft K2/100 #4455 Elecraft K3/100 #366 Elecraft K3 #1875 -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Exciting-Band-Opening-tp3917051p3919185.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
