Yep, it's been on Youtube for the better part of 2 years now ... Mr. Low-band DX'ing made the big step from Ten-tec Orion's to K3's some time ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT_NwIsz54k 73' Brian OZ2BRN Den 04-01-2011 14:17, Bill W4ZV skrev: > Oops, I meant to include the link to W8JI's comments below: > > http://www.w8ji.com/polarization_and_diversity.htm > > 73, Bill > > > > Craig-89 wrote: >> I happened to tune across John ON4UN on 40 meters working a JA this >> morning(his evening). John was soliciting opinions from the JA on the >> audio quality of a K3.(he sounded great) It will be interesting to hear >> what John thinks of his? K3. >> >> Can anyone confirm that John owns one, or maybe was he just testing >> someone else's K3? An evaluation from this highly respected author >> should make for some interesting reading. >> > Sorry for the reference to Craig's old 2008 post above but I > searched the archives to see if anyone had mentioned ON4UN's new 5th edition > of his Low-Band DXing. I just received my copy a few days ago and the K3 > was most definitely the star of Chapter 3 - Receiving and Transmitting > Equipment. John's concluding comment at the end of the chapter: > > "You can buy the best transceiver there is on the market for a very > reasonable price, the Elecraft K3. And no, I have no connection with > Elecraft, and paid the full price for my K3s. I would be ashamed asking for > a discount for such a wonderful piece of equipment at such a very reasonable > price." > > For those who may not have seen it, here's another nice endorsement > from Tom W8JI regarding diversity and the K3: > > "I implement stereo diversity by phase locking two separate receivers > (heavily modified R4C's) together so audio outputs are exactly locked in > phase. The receivers are virtually identical, even to the point where I hand > select crystal filters for equal group delay change over the filter > passband. Every oscillator in the receiver system is common to both > receivers. I'm aware of only one commercially available amateur receiver > that does true stereo diversity, the Elecraft K3. I currently use an > Elecraft K3 since it is the only system that phase-locks two identical > receivers, it interfaces a good transmitter with the receivers, and is a > modern stable design with accurate frequency readout." > > <SNIP> > > "There are articles describing how to electronically lock the receiver > tuning of the FT1000D (and other receivers) so the sub-receiver tracks the > main receiver. This does somewhat work in the FT1000, because the > oscillators share a common time base. The main problem with the FT1000 is > the second receiver isn't a very good receiver, the filters do not match, > the AGC does not match, and phase shift through the receivers (especially as > the signal moves off the filter center) is not at all similar. > > I had similar disappointment with the Orion system. > > To the best of my knowledge the K3 Elecraft is the only receiver that has > absolutely identical receivers that share one common reference system. That > is what I have switched to now." > > I thought some of you might be interested to see what two of the > best low band DXers thought about their K3s. > > 73& HNY, > > Bill W4ZV > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
