Price! One of the reasons I chose the K3 over the Flex5000. Dual-Rx is an essential part of my use. Both Rx must lock in frequency. Portability (previously discussed), is another. Rx performance is the primary one (low phase noise LO). K3 looks nice on my radio shelf!
Ed - KL7UW ------------------------------ Message: 22 Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 22:49:39 +0100 From: Stephen Prior <[email protected]> Subject: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom To: elecraft <[email protected]> Message-ID: <c81cbe83.16c35%[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" ==sniped=== One has to be real about this. The likely price of the FT5000 will, I suspect, be several times that of the K3. It won't run off 12V, and it certainly would not fit on my operating desk! I also would not be prepared to spend that kind of money. I would also wager that 99.9% of users would notice no real world difference in receive performance between it and the K3, or indeed one or two other other top end radios. It is, however, very pretty...! Horses for courses.... 73 Stephen G4SJP 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-600w, 432-100w, 1296-60w, 3400-fall 2010 DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ 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
