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I am feeling pretty good about the numbers Rob Sherwood, NC0B, has come up with. That is my radio he is testing and so now I know exactly the specifics of that particular radio, SN 00149. <SNIP> I received the following private message from NN4X: >I'm curious as to why there was (apparently) not sufficient confidence to have Rob run the test >on yours, after you completed the build and calibration yourself. After all, that's the radio all of >us who purchase the "kit" will be using; not one possibly tweaked by the factory. I will post the answer here so everyone can share in exactly what happened. I was building up the radio and started final calibration. Before finishing calibration, I was anxious and listened on 160M where I heard my neighbor all across the band. I called Elecraft and asked if this was normal. Rather than farmer around, they said send it in. They gave me a return number and so I sent it in. I explained I had not finished calibration but they said they wanted to check it anyhow. I sent the radio in and they gave me the info back that I hadn't finished calibration, that they found nothing wrong. Hey I said, I told them I hadn't finished calibrating but since I knew it was going to NC0B, I was more than happy to send it in. To make a long story short, and you can check with Wayne or Eric on this, they finished calibration and shipped it back. Apparently I had stopped on the step where it is critical to calibrate the synthesizer, duh. Anyhow, Elecraft took care of the catch 22 problem for me and all is/was well. I immediately checked it on 160M when it returned and I could get within 800 Hz of my legal power running neighbor before his transmitted phase noise precluded going closer. I waited a few days until Rob and I could meet in the city and passed it on to him. Now he has the radio and is putting it through its paces. If you want to know more, I suggest you contact either Wayne or Eric or Rob as the case may be however Rob has pretty much finished his testing and published his results. That is what started all this discussion in the first place, the K3 is at the top of the list! That's my story and I am sticking to it! 73, Charlie, W0YG..>> -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/New%3A-K3-tops-the-list-tp15549251p15550442.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] 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
