You betcha, Dave! Remember the old commercial line for Dial soap, "Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everybody did?" Well, that's how I felt about our K3s at WRTC. I was confident that I wasn't generating significant phase noise, key clicks, mixer products, harmonics and other crud. I was delighted that I could operate very close to S9+60 neighbors. (Our closest was N6TV/N2IC, also using K3s.) And occasionally I got grossed out by clicks, lousy audio and too-loud harmonics from other participants.
The K3 was the dominant radio at WRTC (over 50% of rigs in use) for at least three reasons: 1. Many participants had already chosen the K3 as their home rig and there was no reason not to bring it. This is probably the main reason. 2. This was essentially Field Day via airliner with today's draconian luggage restrictions. Some people who didn't have K3s may have borrowed or acquired them to save packing weight and volume. They may become converts as a result. 3. Some people may have borrowed or acquired K3s to take advantage of their strong signal capabilities in the hostile RF environment of WRTC. More potential converts. Elecraft can be justifiably proud of creating the contest rig of choice in our day. I don't have any more skinny on the lightning damage to the Austrians' K3s, but the storm was pretty ferocious and could have damaged any radio. It was quite localized, with some stations off the air for 10-40 minutes but most able to stay on throughout. I was half expecting our referee to call time-out based on a central edict - that was the advance plan - but it didn't happen. I was also ready to pull the plugs myself if the storm got any closer to us. But fortunately K6XX and I got through it with no worse interruption than having to request a few extra repeats due to electrical and acoustic noise. /Rick N6XI On 7/14/10, Dave Hachadorian <[email protected]> wrote: > > The link below shows which radios were used by WRTC participants. > There was certainly a preponderance of K3's. > > Dave Hachadorian, K6LL > Big Bear Lake, CA > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Igor Booklan SRR" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:27 AM > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] WRTC final scores > > > Guys, > > > > We've just opened a link to WRTC-2010 final scores > > > > http://www.wrtc2010.ru/?id=75 > > > > 73, Harry RA3AUU > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CQ-Contest mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Rick Tavan N6XI Truckee, CA ______________________________________________________________ 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
