I don't know what the problem with others who think that the K3 is "hard of hearing" on 6m. I have not had any problems working DX with a 5ele yagi up only 24 feet this past summer. Some of the signals were weak but I had no problem picking them out of the noise. I was using the K3 internal pre-amp. I also had the Elecraft PR-6 pre-amp (beta version) and used that a few times. It did bring up the noise with the weaker signals but think the new PR-6 has a better s/n ratio.
I have a few stns in RI who run KW's but do not seem to de-sensitize the K3 at all. It is rather difficult for a manufacturer to include the VHF/UHF bands on an all HF rig, unless they make a separate rx for these bands and that would definitely "jack up" the price of the rig. I think Elecraft did a great job in designing the K3 and their product support is just superb...something you would not get out of the other competitors. Just my $0.02 worth and hope I don't stir up a hornets nest on this posting. Tom/k1tl... _______________________________________________ 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
