From a more simplified position: Portable operations with a K3 from early 2008, continuously through to today, the K3 has been the only transceiver in use. Multiple wire antennas and a tri-band yagi on a trailer mounted tower is in my estimation are "hard life" and I would question what other transceiver could stand up to this type of rigor? Bare in mind the K3 has not known what a nice comfy shack is, it does know what a motor home, a campsite and the great outdoors is and I could not question the Elecraft quality, reliability and suitability for this type of operation. Now add the legendary, and I mean legendary, support and robust design, and I think most if not all agree that the K3 stands alone at the very top of the list of transceivers built for top performance, suitability, reliability and ease of operation. I read about "Flagship" radios and I chuckle, none of them have survived what I term hard life conditions, been there, done that, and I have the Yaesu and Kenwood T-shirts to prove it but not their equipment, both failed in the first year and were moved on. DXpeditions run for a few weeks, my K3 has run for 7 years and counting. Way to go Eric and Wayne, you guys' deserve every accolade that's out there.
Just my highly biased nickels worth. 73 Gary -----Original Message----- From: "John King" <[email protected]> Sent: 22/08/2015 1:29 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Why K3's are on most DXpeditions Another data point from the all-K3 FD station W1LY (2A RI). The 3 Yagi antennas in the photo (link below) were all on the 20m band simultaneously for at least 4 hours at the beginning of FD. 1 station was on 20 CW, and 2 stations were on 20 SSB. All running 100 Watts. Another K3 was used in the VHF station, and 2 other K3's were on standby as spares. Picture here: http://w1sye.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/FD-2015-Panorama-Resized.jpg 73, John WA1ABI ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
