How much money would you like to bet? As much as Eric and Wayne? If your
assertion were true, no one would buy a Flex, or an Icom or a FTDX-101.
Hams love new stuff and there's a reason that Wayne and Eric are willing
to bet their actual money against your virtual money that lots of ops
will want a K4. If you've been following this list, people have been
asking for a replacement for the K3/K3S for a decade. I'm pretty sure if
Elecraft builds it, the customers will come.
The K4 will likely have a cleaner signal than the K3S due to predistortion.
73,
Scott N9AA
On 11/4/19 9:42 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
I don't want to look like I'm beating a dead horse so this will be my
last comment on the subject, but my point was that I don't think very
many contest stations or DXpeditions are going to sell their K3s rigs
to buy a K4 (I don't see a compelling reason for them to do so), so
I'm not sure how much value there is in it being a 12 volt rig even if
the price range is similar. If anyone views that differently I'd
like to hear their reasoning.
And I'd bet a lot of money that most contesters or DXpedition
operators would be glued to their laptop screens and punching keyboard
buttons instead of watching the LCD display on the rig. I know that I
have operated entire major contests without ever touching anything
except the tuning knob on my K3. Everything else I need to do is
controllable from N1MM+.
The capability for future features could of course prove me wrong on
both accounts, but for now it just doesn't seem to me that they would
likely override the immediate value in having a significantly cleaner
signal. Clearly Elecraft has made their choice, for better or for worse.
Done now. ;)
73,
Dave AB7E
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