great review! i read most every review and article you post. i ordered the kx3 mostly because of your review and partly because i'd been looking for a self-contained radio of adequate quality for several years. the price takes your breath (or at least my breath) away but i wanted to make sure i got all the accessories and options i'd need in case some went suddenly out of stock.
i'm seriously disappointed that this isn't really what my definition of an 'sdr' radio consists of, i.e., one that uses only a single usb cable for programming, control, and power. i blew a couple hundred bucks trying to get an icom ic-r20 to accept its computer overlord and that was an exercise in frustration with cobbled together and custom made cables and interface boxes and it was just a nightmare. and even when i did get the radio connected, it was barely functional. it is far easier for me to look up a sw sked on my iphone and type the freq out on the keyboard than to get the sdr app to do it. anyway, even if i can't get the kx3 working the way 'real' sdr radios such as the bonito radiojet do, at least i can know that i can carry it away from my computer with a portable antenna and be fully functional with a receiver every bit as good. tks again for the review. keep up the good work. /guy (73 de kg5vt) -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/The-KX3-as-a-shortwave-broadcast-receiver-tp7576726p7576768.html Sent from the Elecraft 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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
