Howard, You were not viewed as a troll, but I believe your perception of the number and importance of changes is greater than actual.
I encourage you to check the hardware changes over the life of the K3, and also look at the rate of changes. They are all listed at the bottom of the K3 page on the Elecraft website (look for "Enhancements and Modifications") In the life of the K3 so far, there have been only 12 hardware changes. The rate is important to me in determining the "finality" of changes too - note that the only one this year has been the Keying of the SUBOUT connector to prevent improper installation of the SubRX and does not change the functioning of the K3 at all, it is just a "builder error prevention" change. If you order factory built, that one would be a "NO OP" because you would have had the SubRX factory installed. After 11 changes through 2008, we have seen 7 months of the K3 with no further real hardware changes. Yes, the audio low pass filter is on the horizon, but depending on your ears, you may not notice whether it is installed or not - most owners could not hear what it 'fixes', but you might want to wait until that change is released. Yes, I am ignoring the change to the KXV3 to accommodate the new internal 144 MHz transceiver. The old KXV3 worked just fine but did not have the 'hooks' for the transceiver - that change is more along the lines of what other manufacturers would designate as a model change/upgrade - but Elecraft does not "do business" that way. With the K3, there is no need for a user to make any of the hardware changes. A K3 can be upgraded by Elecraft if that is what you want or need, but if the new mod does not make any difference to your operation, why bother at all? I do not expect many more hardware changes to the K3, and in my opinion, there have actually been very few since its introduction, but I base my comparison on the K2 which had many incremental changes until new boards were released with SN 3000, and only 2 after that time. BTW -- your email is being sent in multiple copies, I have seen 3 in my inbox this morning. You may want to see where it is stuck in the pipeline, be that your email client or your ISP or elsewhere. 73, Don W3FPR HowardZ wrote: > Ah Don, > > You are so kind. I expected to be labeled a troll. > > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
