When I was in the market for my K3 someone told me that what is at the top of the heap today may be surpassed by someone else tomorrow. Supposedly the Yaesu has a better receiver, at least on CW.
What would bother me about this kind of a rig is that after spending all that money on it, I may find myself owning an outmoded rig in a couple of years. They only maintain the current state of the art up to a point, then they want to sell a new model. I would be extremely mad if I had bought the FT-2000 and now find the FT-5000 offering significantly enhanced performance. The other thing that would bother me is having to deal with product defects. Judging from what I read in the report, this unit already has a number of issues. That is not surprising for new technology but the question is what are they going to do about it. Sure, they will fix some things now but I am probably going to have to send it in to the factory for a month or more. The beauty of the K3 is the absolutely stellar service. Plus the fact that most issues can be fixed with a simple swap of a board or a part. Instead of sending the unit in whenever something goes wrong, I can with the help of the factory figure out what is probably wrong and fix it myself. I just did that with a defective B encoder. Further, as long as they continue to make K3's I know I am going to be able to benefit from all the improvements. I may have to pay a little for parts but I am not going to have to shell out $5000 for a new radio. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
