A good day for QRP

I had a day off today and after driving XYL to work I headed for the club station of our local radio club. I brought with me the Elecraft K3/10. The result of the day was two new DXCCs; HZ1PS Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on 15m and A61R United Arab Emirates on 17m. I also worked 7 new band countries on 15m and 12m. All stations were worked with 5w SSB.

This brings my QRP SSB DXCC count to 80 countries worked and 73 confirmed.

Carrying Case for my Elecraft K3

A week ago I ordered a carrying case for my Elecraft K3. Last night I received an e-mail from Rose with a preview photo of my finished case! That's what I call excellent customer service!

You can check out the products at http://tinyurl.com/7lm3m5

Updating the Elecraft K3

Here the other day I updated my Elecraft K3 to MCU 3.11 / DSP 2.15. When testing the NR function I noticed that the sound was very distorted, even on NR setting 1-1. I Googled the problem and found out I'm not the only one experiencing this. I've kept the out of the box ALC settings but will try to find some better settings to solve the problem.

NR distortion with 3.11

Update: I was updating from MCU 02.78 / DSP 01.98 / FPF 00.02