I cannot imagine my returning to the YaeKenCom fold now. OK, we all agree they make a "Good" product in general and supply varying levels of support etc etc....
BUT....do they make a direct competitor to the K3?...me thinks not, the K3 is NOT a "Bottom Line Destroying" product and given these three dominant manufacturers track record they may have decided to continue along their merry way. BUT what if they saw there equipment ignored by the contesters and DXpeditions?...that might cause them to rethink their marketing strategy. As new models are released we all tend to rush out and make comparisons and spend our hard earned dollars only to find out after awhile that the perfect radio is just a few mods and updates away....maybe. Whilst I like the K3 and it does most (not all) things I would like, I don't see it as perfect by any means, BUT, it does MORE things and does them BETTER than any other radio I have owned. But for me the K3 has a way to go before I would give it a "Worlds Best" radio...but with my personal rating of 4.25 stars out of 5 it does not have far to go for me. I sold off about $25,000 AUD worth of JA radios and run the K3 only. For a mobile I may get a TS-480HX and take my toys with me when I enter the DX cloud for good....:-) Till then I will keep hoping the K3 will get the features promised working and complete without turning it into a difficult to use, menu driven, button tapping paper weight. Must be beer thirty....somewhere 73's Gary VK4WT/P Sent via BlackBerry® from Telstra ______________________________________________________________ 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
