Heck, even my K2 has reawakened my interest in contesting. I did a little bit of hunting/pecking in CW contests back when I was in college. The club station (W5EHM at UT Austin) had a TS-830 and a huge tribander on top of the engineering building and I'd make quite a few QSO's from there.
After that, I've tried it with my 706MKIIG with my own ants and it's just a tragedy of desense and IMD, so I kind of lost interest in contesting, at least on my own. During the recent CW DX contest, tho, I was just stunned and amazed with my K2's RX as I was able to crawl right inside the holes here and there in between the big run freqs and find all kinds of faint stations. XFIL was all I needed to get rid of them completely hi hi. I even worked two stations (a P40 and a KH6) on 15 meters with my indoor ant and 10 watts. So I'm probably going to try to get back into contesting, even working those 2 stations was quite a thrill.... But as for the rig, I can only imagine the "wall" you can have with the K3, even as good as it is with my K2! 73, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K5ZD-on-K3-tp4653852p4654871.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
