Neil, When I bought my K3 in 2008 and later on when I added the rest of the K-Line, I bought kits. Did the same for my KX3 and KXPA. They were not bought to save dollars but to familiarize myself with the equipment. I bought a fairly bare K3-100 - only added the tuner. As time went by I added all but the TXO and then added some K3s stuff - new synthesizers and USB interface. Starting with a kit made all of the upgrades a non-event, even when I had to remove the front panel.
My recollection is that the difference in cost was minimal (a few percent). My guess was that the cost of not assembling an Elecraft is mostly offset by the additional packaging and instructions for the kit end user. I'm probably going to make a K4 my final radio as a 80th birthday present in a year or two! 73 George AI4VZ On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 4:11 PM Neil <[email protected]> wrote: > .... > I am just curious about the estimated cost difference between the factory > version and the kits. > ______________________________________________________________ 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]
