On 9/12/2012 8:21 PM, Stan AE7UT wrote: > The quesiton is should I get a K3 now (hoping to beat the price increase) or > wait and buy the fully loaded version in a couple of months? How difficult > is it to keep adding modules on? I would be buying the kit form.
Not difficult at all. The only tricky part about building a fully loaded K3 is that the sub-RX is a real shoe-horn job, and you have to remove it to add stuff to either it or the main board, even filters. Thus, I would suggest that you make it the last thing you add. Everything else is a piece of cake. Another alternative. The KX3 is a real nice radio. For about the price of a not-loaded K3 you could add a KPA500 to it and have a 250W radio. It all depends on what you want to do with it when you're done. :) Later, buy the K3 with the KAT500 high power antenna tuner, drive the amp with that, and you've got a real nice 600W station. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ 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
