Well yeah that's kind of my point. The competition lost my business because of the gadgeteering rather than offering good basic performance. If Kenwood still made the 530 and 830, I'd probably have bought one by now (I used to have a 530S, it was lovely and I never should have sold it).
Otherwise, it's all just too many big screens with overly complicated, fragile, crashing and buggy software and not enough basic performance and value. I havn't been able to pull the trigger on a rig since I bought my 706MKIIG back in college because I just havn't been able to find an acceptable bang/buck in an HF rig since then. I've long since become inactive as a result (my ticket had even expired but was fortunately still within the grace period when I sent my renewal into FCC last year, whew!). That is, until I discovered elecraft. I just buttoned up the cover on my K2 a couple days ago and am already absolutely amazed with its wonderful RX and CW performance. Couldn't care less that it doesn't have a band scope - I can hear weak sigs down in the noise even while that s9+20 lid is calling CQ on top of them 1 or 2 kc's away and can hear them. Just hit XFIL and he's out of the picture hi hi. So that's how elecraft got me as a convert. At some point, you need a rig that works for what you want to do with it. For me, that's already my K2. I thought long and hard about a K3 as well, but it's a little out of my budget for now. Plus, I could build my K2, which I really wanted to do too. LS -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-Competition-tp4571345p4572722.html Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
