On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:58:02 -0800, you wrote: > >What I REALLY already have are four modern HF transceivers. One each from >Icom, Kenwood, Yaesu and Elecraft and at the moment all are sitting here >side-by-side with a switching set-up that allows me to do instant A/B/C/D >comparisons. My first Elecraft radio is a K3. The K3 is simply the best >radio I have ever owned. Am I a zealot? No, as I just said this is the first >Elecraft product I have ever owned and I've had it for just two weeks. Can >it get better? Yes it can. > >Perhaps what is most important is whether I have ever been offered the >opportunity to chat with the designers/builders of the other radios as I did >with Wayne in the last couple of days over an obscure feature I'd like to >see (or any other feature/issue as far as that goes)? No never. Do any of >them have an email list (which appears to be totally un-moderated) that THEY >the manufacturer sponsors and supports so that I can provide my feedback and >perhaps influence their direction or air my complaints. No never. There are >other lists but they are all sponsored and run by the users not by the >vendor. All the other vendors that I have given my money to have the "you >bought it's your problem" attitude. > >My 2nd favorite radio is my 1KMP Yaesu. I was fortunate to buy a late model >that Yaesu had (more or less) fixed the serious key click problems that >these radios had for TEN+ YEARS. Despite serious feedback from the Ham >community for a decade they just blew it off and only in the last two years >of production managed to install a half-hearted fix for the problem. I >should also note that the radio was only really good after I spent another >$800 dollars on roofing/IF filters from another company as the stock factory >stuff was garbage. > >No doubt my operating requirements and others are not the same. However, >after nearly 50 years in the Amateur Radio Service I have never done >business with any vendor who is as quality and customer focused as Elecraft. >My very first purchase was simply the best dollars I have ever spent on >equipment in my radio experience. > >Respectfully submitted with no ill will toward anyone. > >73/Patrick >W7TMT [snip]
I second that after 33 years as a ham! Love my S/N 806. Tom, N5GE _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
