I had the same thing happen several times. I'd call QRL? on what for me was a totally open frequency and get a "RR" reply from someone way off the side that I could only hear by virtue of their bad key clicks. One guy was a full 500 Hz away and he still thought I'd be bothering him.
The narrow capability has another downside, though. A few times I'd be calling CQ on a perfectly clear frequency without getting many replies even though I knew the band was open. So I'd check either side of me and discover an S9+20 station 200 Hz away that I didn't even know was there, and potential callers with wider filters were having trouble separating us. I was using the 250 Hz 8-pole filter with the DSP set to 200 Hz and it worked fantastic, but until everyone else buys a K3 (or at least fixes their damn key clicks) I'll probably not be able to get maximum benefit of it. 73, Dave AB7E Jim Brown wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:37:46 -0500, DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote: > > >> What a great radio.... >> > > Yes. Several times I got complaints from guys who came on my new run > frequency to complain when I landed too close to theirfrequency on > 40M. Thanks to my K3, I didn't even know they were there, and > couldn't hear them with my IF opened up to 400 Hz. Can't blame it on > my TX -- on CW, I can run 500 Hz away from my close-in neighbors who > also use K3s. > > 73, > > Jim K9YC > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
