Dave, Your statement: 'Several reports are surfacing here and elsewhere from very reputable sources about the current lack of SSB bandwidth'. Could you give more information on your statement above. I have not heard of any SSB bandwidth problem and would like to here the details.
Thanks and 73, Joe N9VX K3 S/N waiting.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave wrote: Hi Everyone, As I posted here at mid week, K3 #371 arrived from Aptos in fine shape. I have begun the build and thought I would share some comments both positive and negative with all. You opinions of course will most likely be different but here are mine so far: Positive: The kit was packaged magnificently. The care in packaging is first rate. The manual is by far one of the most comprehensive I have seen in building many kits over the years. Clear, concise and detailed but very logical and easy to follow. Build quality of the boards is indeed elegant. Fit and finish is simply excellent. Tolerances are amazing. It is a work of engineering art. Congrats to Eric and Wayne of all of this. They should be proud of their baby. Negative: Yup I have a negative. Of all of the kits I have built over the years, many of them fairly complex, from Heath, LDG, W9GR and many others, this is the first to arrive short parts/hardware. And while the shortage is minor, it is specialized and significant enough to stop me cold in the build process and add yet another week to the final K3 experience. Simply put, it has been deflating. Yet more delay. While Elecraft was attentive to this matter over the phone and in a response from K3Support, I am still not sure if the parts are headed this way as no confirmation has been positively received. This will be my last kit experience. I should have bought it factory assembled as I planned originally. But I bought into the kit mystique. Never again. Concerns: I am both a CW and SSB operator as non-contesting DX'er. SSB TX issues are important to me. Several reports are surfacing here and elsewhere from very reputable sources about the current lack of SSB bandwidth and the lack of more "powerful" modulation. I urge Elecraft to address these issues ASAP (now perhaps with more priority than the second receiver.) This will be a deal breaker for me if not rectified. IMO it should have been correct out of the box. This K3 will be evaluated against my highly modified Ten Tec Omni V.9 which has for my operating requirements beat out every transceiver on both CW and SSB since its arrival here at this QTH, bar none, including my Pro III which for all its true Rx warts is a pretty darn good value for the $$. I paid my $$ and took my chances and hope that this will all get rectified in the end. And for those of you who may think that I should not air complaints in public, I ask, did yours arrive complete? My $.02 73 de N1LQ-Dave _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
