My story is too good to pass up this bragfest. On October 7 I had a
serious lightning strike. It damaged five pieces of elecraft gear, K3s,
KX3, KPA500, KAT500, and P3. All have been sent to Elecraft for repair and
I must say the response from them has been excellent. I was left with two
With I could go back to Galapagos again!
On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 06:20 Wes wrote:
> I own an upgraded K3, a K3S, a KPOD, a KPA500 and a KAT500. I used the
> latter
> two with a brand K transceiver and very modest antennas to work them (so
> far) on
> 25 of the 29 slots they operated on.
>
> In
I own an upgraded K3, a K3S, a KPOD, a KPA500 and a KAT500. I used the latter
two with a brand K transceiver and very modest antennas to work them (so far) on
25 of the 29 slots they operated on.
In my book six-meters doesn't count and they only made a handful of 60-meter CW
and SSB Qs so
While I own both the KX2 and KX3, when I was trying to work HD8R on 40m
with an Inverted V in the early evening here in SoCal on FT8, there was a
HGE pileup. In my case, the K3 (upgraded to K3S) with the KPA1500 was
the trick. It took me an hour and a KW, but I finally got through. So I
By far it is the most fun per watt of any radio that I have ever owned.
I worked HD8R on 15 with 10 watts to a random wire.
w8vln
On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 6:08 PM Wayne Burdick wrote:
> I took advantage of the excellent conditions today to work a little DX
> with the KX2. I was running 10 watts
I took advantage of the excellent conditions today to work a little DX with the
KX2. I was running 10 watts on 17 meters to a 20 meter vertical.
There was HD8M (Galapagos), loud and clear, calling CQ "up 5" on 18.145.
When I broke the pileup on the third call, I reflected on how many of the
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