For those who would like to hear how K3 behaves in contest environment
I have put here http://ua9cdc.narod.ru/UCG2009.html some audio files from
Ural Contest Group Contest (UCG) 2009 operation. This contest is WRTC style
annual competition held by UCG on the first weekend in June during first 6
hours of Region 1 Field Day. This year UCG contest was held for the 11th
time since 1998.
Operators were UA9CLB and UA9CDC. We have primarily seen it as the
preparation and equipment check for WRTC 2010. All participants were located
along South-North line on the same field. Centers of the positions were
separated by 200m to simulate adverse situation found in major contests. All
participants were running 100W into 3 el Spider beams for 20-15-10
(www.spiderbeam.com) and inverted vee for 40m. All of the antennas were on
single 10m aluminum mast. Equipment used were 2 of Elecraft K3, Microham
Microkeyer II(www.microham.com), pare of Atom processor based netbooks and
TR4W contest logger (TR4W.QRZ.RU)which is BTW excellent piece of software
written by UA4WLI based on the code of old DOS based TRlog. TR4W is free.
Please note that the files are pretty heavy (20-25 Mb).
73, Igor UA9CDC
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