Jim If you look at any major DXpeditions and pay close attention over 80% of all the radios are supplied by manufactures as well as most of the equipment. Like Swains and the IC-7600, Elecraft amps and so on. Usually it's Elecraft for one major reason weight vs. performance a excellent comparison weight being important shipping costs, air, ship whatever then carrying them to where they are going to be used. Two radios in the same class FTDX-5000MP top notch receiver and performance proven worldwide at 18"x 8 1/2"x19 1/2" and weighting 50# and only 120v then the K3 about 10 3/4'x4'x10' and weighting about 10# and 12v. This in itself is a huge factor in the selection the sheer size of the two and Elecraft does supply radios to most who request them.
I personally appealed Elecraft for the support they give to them I'm sure that along with good antenna donors for just two of many that have helped me to add many "new Ones" to my DXCC count and contributed in my decision to go with Elecraft equipment in my shack. I am not 100% Elecraft "ONLY" like some, but they don't have a few things that others offer or that I like so for now only (6) Elecraft items including 3 radios 2 K3/100's a P3/SVGA and a K2. And all of this came about because of a friend who will remain un-named that cost me all this money when I was happy without anything Elecraft(8-) 73 & Good DX, Fred/N0AZZ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Brown Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Phase Noise / CW Key Clicks On 9/12/2012 9:18 PM, Matt Zilmer wrote: > The main real-world problem is that the K3 is a minority in the > general ham rig population. Maybe someday, the K3 penetration rate > will be high enough that we can hear it in how quiet the bands are. > Crowded but quiet between signals that is. Yes, BUT -- considering the number of active contesters in the world (study the results of major contests), I'd say that Elecraft has been achieving pretty good penetration. If I'm not mistaken, I've seen serial numbers in the 7,000 range, and we know that they started at #1 and didn't skip any. It's also gotten to the point where experienced DXpeditioners would rather drag their own K3s through airports than accept freebies from Icom or Yaesu. More important, it's REAL easy to see the difference between a clean rig and a dirty one on a P3, and every season I see a greater proportion of clean ones! It's gotten to the point that, at least here on the West Coast, a dirty signal stands out like a sore thumb! 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
