"it is it is a whole lot better than my previous radios by far! a whole lot better than my previous radios by far!" No doubt about it,so far after been a jham for 18 years and owning more than 100 radios from the three big companies from JA,up to the range of $3K radios,K3 is and will be my best performance radios. No complains so far after many FW upgrades,excellent performance I doubt JA's will beat. Onlything I can tell is that the K3 as well as any yaesu radio don't have a good monitor audio quality,they never show the exact replica of the transmitted audio,only radio I owned that made an exact replica of my Tx audio was the ProIII. Hopefully someday Elecraft could do the proper changes to fix that not anoying issue. To all US Elecrafters,have a happy thanksgiving day and don't forget to include in your thanks prayers to be grateful of having a K3. AD4C
"For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3" --- On Mon, 11/23/09, Lee Buller <[email protected]> wrote: From: Lee Buller <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: Yaesu copies K3's design To: "juergen piezo" <[email protected]>, "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 2:28 PM "This radio is going to be very popular because it seems that a lot of the criticism of the K3's apparent failings seem to have been corrected in the new Yaesu FT5K design" Apparent failings! Huh? My K3 does not have any failings. It works exactly as it should with minor issues - very minor to me - and only has gotten better. John, take what is said here on the reflector with a grain of salt. The griping and bitching on this reflector does not really reflect the "respect" Elecraft has with its end-users. Also the griping and bitching on the reflector has made the K3 a better radio. The K3 is a dynamic and changing rig. It is not done being developed yet. Also, can you talk to the Yaesu designers and software engineers? I doubt it. It is not surprising that Y and I are making radios to compete. They lost and now they have to play catch up. The Japanese have always copied good designs...and I must say...they have excellent engineers too that have come up with dandy ideas. That is why I drive a Japanese car. Apparent failings- balderdash! The K3 is not yet done and I doubt it will ever be a perfect radio, but it is a whole lot better than my previous radios by far! Do you own a K3? Lee Buller K0WA ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
