Randy, I have owned lots of radio in my 59 years as a ham and my advisewould be a K3 or K3s.I have two , one for HF and the other I use on 630 M with Homwbrew150 watt power amp. Photo on my web-site k5dnl dot com
Thanks 73 Ken K5DNL On Wednesday, October 9, 2019, 10:52:18 AM CDT, Kevin Cozens <ke...@ve3syb.ca> wrote: On 2019-10-09 3:03 a.m., Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP wrote: > I don't know, Don. If he installs the KPA100 the lack of temperature > stability will be a serious issue, at least for digital modes. My experience > was that before installing the temperature compensation mod, the drift was > unacceptable even on CW. This was not a problem before the additional heat > generated by the KPA100. If Randy would like to keep the K2 the Temperature Compensated PLL Reference Upgrade Kit (item #E850138 for $24.95) is still listed on the order form for K2 Revision A to B Upgrade page. The information for that mod also suggests installation of the BFO mod kit (item BFOMDKT for $10.95) and a firmware update if the K2 has a firmware version less than v2.0. Those are relatively inexpensive upgrades and worth doing to improve the K2 if Randy doesn't want to go the full A/B upgrade path right away. I don't know which would be a better investment between the K2 and the 7300 as I know nothing about the 7300. One other thought to consider is the difference between having a radio you can fix yourself vs. one where you have to send it away to get fixed should something break. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ | "Nerds make the shiny things that https://www.patreon.com/KevinCozens | distract the mouth-breathers, and | that's why we're powerful" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to kwrober...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com