Hi Gary, You've already had a lot of great replies...
Thought I'd throw my two cents worth in at this late date: The second RX is well worth having particularly for the low bands where you're more likely to be using a separate RX antenna. Too, if you're gonna be DX, it's VERY useful for listening to behavior on your TX frequency, as well as the pile up. Diversity RX is very useful at times, but if you don't have the antenna(s), it is kinda expensive to have just to say you have one... I'd probably second the 500hz and 200hz options, not a big cost savings, but it could be put towards the second receiver... One can argue the performance difference between 5 pole and 8 pole, I've not seen a meaningful difference in my contesting activities. For digital (RTTY), I'd suggest going with FSK and the aforementioned filters would be just fine. The K3 is as competitive as you are... I think it is very functional, provides easy and competitive performance at a good price AND has a tremendous team behind it. Firmware is always being improved or having features added, which is more than you can say for some other companies. IF, you ever need to work on/repair one, it is fairly easy to do and parts aren't unobtainium. One can argue about a radio's competitive advantage forever, there are so many things that go into "winning" beyond the radio. That being said, either the K3 or K2 are great contest radios IMHO. The K3 offers a lot of flexibility and growth options. Combined with KYBITC, decent antennas, decent QTH and decent propagation, you definitely will in great shape for the top 10 ;o) Cheers and see ya in the fray! 73 and Happy New Year to all, Julius ----- Julius Fazekas N2WN Tennessee Contest Group http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html Tennessee QSO Party http://www.tnqp.org/ Elecraft K2 #4455 Elecraft K3/100 #366 Elecraft K3/100 #1875 -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Reason-to-NOT-buy-a-K3-tp5868025p5874614.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
