CW DX was both amazing and fun! The world opened up, and the K3 brought great joy in being able to not only hear them all, but work them all! There wasn't a call that I heard I couldn't get a report back from! 24 hours of the day I checked in, and it was always the same thing. Calls I hadn't heard in YEARS all answering me on my little doublet antenna!
Yet, at 0000Z time on Sunday the band droped out as if a nuclear bomb had hit the entire world. What is wrong with Ham radio when we only know how to enjoy our hobby when there's a contest? At 0001z I sent a repeated CQ CQ CQ, it took till 0014z before someone 500 miles from me finally answered it. Yet 14 minutes before that I was hearing Cuba, Ireland, the South Pacific and Finland all within 10KC of my CQ calling freq. What an utter shame...Man, Ham radio really needs a good kick in the butt! > From: ke6t...@gmail.com > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:05:04 -0800 > Subject: [Elecraft] Super K3 > > I had my best Q's on CW DX contest using K3 and Wintest this week end. EU and > other parts of the world are finally heard and worked using my K3. If was a > lot of FUN. > George KE6TE > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/ ______________________________________________________________ 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
