Interesting point!  I talked to a lot of people at Seaside who decided
that the K3 wasn't their radio because it didn't have a built in "fish
finder" as many of them called panadapters...  This was usually said
by people who were seeing the P3 for the first time and were finally
considering the K3 as a radio they could now own because it has a
panadapter...  But boy with this radio not having an IF out people
won't even be able to use LP-PAN or anything like that to make it
happen...  Seems like adding a feature like an IF out probably
wouldn't have added too horribly much cost to things either...  But
hey everything is a trade off.. I'm sure they'll sell some!

~Brett (N7MG)

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Jeff KB2M <[email protected]> wrote:
> What I don't like about the new Kenwood is that it doesn't have an IF out. I
> think they shot themselves in the foot on that one.
>
> 73 Jeff kb2m
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of juergen
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 1:47 AM
> To: Elecraft Reflector; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Provocative Kenwood Advert working link here
>
> Hi
>
> I see no advantages over the K3, so why would you even consider this new
> model Kenwood? If it was a 1000 dollar radio that might  be a good a reason
> for a change.
>
> As I see it the Kenwood has less  knobs and  functionality on its front
> panel than the K3.
>
> The transmitter uses 12 volt devices so the IMD is probably going to be
> below acceptable standards.
>
> It does not look like the new Kenwood  has  remote direct internet control
> like the TS480.
>
> This is just a TS570S on steroids for the receiver, it aint gonna set the
> world on fire.
>
> All I am waiting for now is Icoms down conversion radio. I would not be
> surprised if they released something like the IC706 with a down conversion
> receiver just to be  trendy. Despite what Icom says it will produce a down
> conversion radio. They had a good one the IC751A.
>
>  It would be  hard for Icom too brag about receiver performance when this
> cheap lowly Kenwood will kick the crap out of its $10K IC78000, not a good
> look in the market place!
>
> Stay tuned for the new movie, "Fiddler on the roofing filter"! It stars the
> 3 Samurai's
>
> 73
> John
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Radio Amateur N5GE <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: Radio Amateur N5GE <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Provocative Kenwood Advert working link here
>> To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 9:32 PM
>> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:33:21 -0400,
>> DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Oh! Wow!  It has ten Hz display resolution!
>>
>>
>>
>> >Thanks to Lew K6LMP for posting this.  Once you
>> get there, double
>> >click the icon.
>> >
>> >http://public.me.com/lewphelps
>> >
>> >
>> >de Doug KR2Q
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