Cookie, you have a point! The thing that frustrates me perhaps the most
about my Orion II is its size. It's huge! It doesn't fit well on my
operating desk (every other rig I own does fit), and it's just plain murder
to position it efficiently from an operating standpoint. Ten-Tec could have
made it much smaller (not as deep) without sacrificing any of the front
panel space.
My K3, on the other hand, fits just about anywhere. I even think the
ergonomics are better, not worse. An Orion II has about 1350+ cubic inches
of volume. The K3 has just over 400 cubic inches. So, theoretically you
can fit three K3's into an Orion. I'm not sure what Ten-Tec was thinking of
when they designed the Orion package, but obviously convenience wasn't on
their mind.
Dave W7AQK
----- Original Message -----
From: "WILLIS COOKE" <[email protected]>
To: "DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL" <[email protected]>; "wayne burdick"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re: K4: serious challenge for the $10K toys
Wayne, for those who complain that the K3 is not heavy enough I suggest
that you sell a battery box to attach to the bottom with a 100 amp hour
gel cell. That should make it heavy enough to give anyone a hernia.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ. K3 #1025 with separate emergency battery.
--- On Sat, 1/3/09, wayne burdick <[email protected]> wrote:
From: wayne burdick <[email protected]>
Subject: [Elecraft] Re: K4: serious challenge for the $10K toys
To: "DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 6:10 AM
DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
> Somehow, competing "head to head" with a
"big" radio doesn't seem to
> fit the "Eric/Wayne" approach.
It does now :) We (and the K3) are in it for the long
haul, and we
don't think of it as a niche radio.
There are no plans for a K4. We'll continue to refine
the K3 as a
system, internally and externally -- hence the highly
modular design.
As with the K2, no K3 will ever be obsolete.
73,
Wayne
N6KR
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