I will add my voice to the unanimous "use a preamp" crowd. I also run the PR6 on 6M, and agree it's an excellent preamp. It also integrates seamlessly with the K3, which isn't the case with a third party preamp. More often than not I also run the internal preamp as well. The internal preamp by itself typically isn't sufficient to make weaker signals copyable. When the e-skip signals are pounding in at 20 or more over 9, then I will back off the preamps as they're not needed and the extra gain overwhelms the front end.
73, Lou, W0FK rfenabled wrote: > > Hi, > > Well I just completed my first 6M contest this past weekend and found it > quite good. > > There was some time ago a lot of comments on the K3's sensitivity on 6M. > > The result was Elecraft produced a pre-amp and not much comment has been > seen since. > > If anyone on the list is a 6m operator with a pre-amp it would be good if > they could contact me off list and let me know what they think of running > with or without the pre-amp... > > I don't wish to clog the reflector with this topic. > > Regards > Gary > VK4WT > Sent via BlackBerry® from Telstra > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ----- St. Louis, MO K3 #2513 -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-6M-operation-tp4095258p4101884.html Sent from the [K3] 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
