Steve Ireland wrote:
>
> It has been interested in reading the thread about a (or some) 'big gun'
> contesters still preferring the classic FT-1000D over the Elecraft K3.
>
Hi Steve,
>From someone you know and love. I'd say this fairly well represents how
many feel about the K3 versus FT-1000 family.
W8JI says: "That's like going to the Ford Mustang forum and asking how
Mustangs are. :-)"
Take out Ford Mustang and insert K-3. I have been on the K-3 relectors for
many months and it is obvious many drink the Elecraft Kool Aid. Mostly the
only honest responses I got on the K-3 were private emails. If you dis the
K-3 in public, one will get beat up cuz them K-3ers can get VERY nasty. I
actually had one K-3er write me an extremely nasty email telling me to get
off the K-3 reflector because my questions were too detrimental to K-3's....
Stan K9IUQ
I don't know why people are like that, although some people do make mistakes
or make a single problem with one radio a universal problem.
I don't know of any perfect radio. They are just like women. :-)
I will say this....I like how my Yaesu FT1000MP MKV's feel and work better
than anything else except:
I don't like a virtual radio, I want something to just grab and push
buttons. I spend too much time with my computer as it is.
I need stereo diversity with my antennas. Only the K3 does that properly in
a radio package. There is no other choice.
I want a cleaner transmitter. Even though I have declicked the MKV's, I'd
like them to be better. The K3 is much cleaner (sometimes too clean).
The K3 is better receiving with strong signals on crowded bands like
contests.
I'd like the K3 to be inside the FT1000 box and use the knobs and buttons of
the FT1000, but it isn't going to happen.
W8JI
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