It is nice for Yaesu to finally do something that Ten-Tec and Elecraft have been doing for years. Though they want twice the amount of money for that big nice radio. I don't know nothing about how the R&D investment works and how they come up with the pricing, but in my opinion, at this stage this still makes them technology followers - not the leaders.
Even their QST add clearly indicates that: "The answer" When K3 got announced it was a quantum leap ahead of my existing MKV which was a good radio (filled with Inrad filters) for its time. Investing a 'few' extra grand in addition to what I got for my MKV was worth for me given the additional value K3 brought home. Now looking at FTDX5000, some specs look great and I would love to have a nice looking radio such as this one, but for me the cost does not justify it. I still think Yaesu will sell lots of those. Perhaps it would have been a different story if this was a direct sampling radio.. 73, Nick ve3ey On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:44 AM, David Christ <[email protected]> wrote: > These are two quite different animals with different design > objectives. The FT-5000 weighs 46 pounds and runs on household AC. > The K3 weighs 8 pounds and runs off 12 VDC. And here we bump into > reality when it comes to 200W. Getting 200 W out of 12 V finals > would be a real trick if you want a clean signal. Each rig fits its > own segment of the market, and part of the market would be happy with > either. I doubt that Elecraft needs to loose much sleep over the > FT-5000. > > David K0LUM > > At 7:59 AM -0800 2/26/10, lstavenhagen wrote: > >Well I dunno. From looking at the specs on the website, I can't see that > the > >FT-5000 is going to offer anything over and above what you can get with > the > >K3, really. At least nothing off the top of my head that would justify the > >extra cost. > > > >The only feature I see appearing on more rigs that I'd say Elecraft might > >want to look into is the 200W final amp. This is nice because, IMO, > >- it reduces the need to go kilowatt with an outboard amp. True it's only > a > >doubling of the typical 100W output, but you can go for quite a while > longer > >without having to invest in a KW. > >- more headroom for high-duty cycle modes like the digital modes. I.e. you > >can go 100% duty-cycle at higher power levels than with a 100W final. > >- very very cushy duty on the final when you are driving an amplifier, > >particularly one of the older dual 3-500Z amps which can require quite a > bit > >of drive to get to full power. You can run that higher drive level into it > >all day long without having to be flat out or close to it like you > sometimes > >are with a 100W final into one of the "boat anchors". > > > >It's probably a relatively low investment in R&D and parts, etc., for > >Elecraft to implement too (tho maybe the size might be a problem in the > >K3?). > > > >That'd be my suggestion as far as a good bang/buck investment Elecraft > could > >make. > > > >The claimed IP3 performance of the 5000 is pretty good indeed, but I'll > >believe it when I see it. Like I said a lot of these boxes are still > trying > >to match the K2 as far as performance hi hi. > > > >73, > >LS > >W5QD > > > > > >-- > >View this message in context: > >http://n2.nabble.com/FT-5000-tp4052723p4639973.html > >Sent from the [HAM] 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
