{"id":8697,"date":"2014-01-31T20:26:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2014-01-31T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:26:33","slug":"listening-to-behavior-night-on-the-elecraft-kx3-qrp-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/listening-to-behavior-night-on-the-elecraft-kx3-qrp-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to beHAVior Night on the Elecraft KX3 QRP transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8700\" alt=\"The Elecraft KX3 transceiver tuned to 7490 kHz\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-1-840x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-1-840x1024.jpg 840w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-1-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-1-82x100.jpg 82w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/photo-1.jpg 1204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a title=\"Review of the Elecraft KX3: world-class transceiver, superb shortwave receiver\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/a-review-of-the-elecraft-kx3-a-world-class-transceiver-superb-shortwave-receiver\/\">I reviewed the Elecraft KX3 transceiver<\/a> as a fantastic radio to consider if you&#8217;re an amateur radio operator who also happens to love SWLing.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I used my KX3 to tune in one of my favorite weekly programs: <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/behavior-night\" target=\"_blank\"><em>beHAVior Night<\/em><\/a>, a shortwave radio show, relayed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/wbcq\" target=\"_blank\">WBCQ<\/a>, which showcases music from the first four decades of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so pleasant about the KX3 is the robust AM audio it delivers, even though its AM filtering is limited to a maximum of 4.2 kHz in width. That&#8217;s a very narrow width, by SWLing standards, but the audio sounds wider.<\/p>\n<p>Listen for yourself: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/beHAViorNight-7490kHz-31JAN14-2200Z\/beHAViorNight-7490kHz-31JAN14-2200Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">click here to download a recording of <em>beHAVior Night<\/em><\/a> made with the Elecraft KX3 (via my Zoom H2N digital recorder) or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/beHAViorNight-7490kHz-31JAN14-2200Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I reviewed the Elecraft KX3 transceiver as a fantastic radio to consider if you&#8217;re an amateur radio operator who also happens to love SWLing. Tonight, I used my KX3 to tune in one of my favorite weekly programs: beHAVior Night, a shortwave radio show, relayed by\u00a0WBCQ, which showcases music from the first four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,56,442,3,26,746,43,1167],"tags":[2546,2547,2032,2029,2033,2351,657],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-news","category-radios","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-behavior","tag-elecraft-kx3","tag-elecraft-kx3-general-coverage","tag-elecraft-kx3-review","tag-elecraft-kx3-shortwave-review","tag-sir-scratchy","tag-wbcq"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2gh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22375,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/holiday-deals-elecrafts-black-friday-event\/","url_meta":{"origin":8697,"position":0},"title":"Holiday Deals: Elecraft&#8217;s Black Friday event","author":"Thomas","date":"November 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you've been thinking about pulling the trigger on an Elecraft transceiver, now may be a good time. 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In 2013, I gave the KX3 one of the most favorable reviews I've ever published--and it continues to hold its own. 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