[Elecraft] K3: Interim Build Report
Dave, Your statement: 'Several reports are surfacing here and elsewhere from very reputable sources about the current lack of SSB bandwidth'. Could you give more information on your statement above. I have not heard of any SSB bandwidth problem and would like to here the details. Thanks and 73, Joe N9VX K3 S/N waiting -- Dave wrote: Hi Everyone, As I posted here at mid week, K3 #371 arrived from Aptos in fine shape. I have begun the build and thought I would share some comments both positive and negative with all. You opinions of course will most likely be different but here are mine so far: Positive: The kit was packaged magnificently. The care in packaging is first rate. The manual is by far one of the most comprehensive I have seen in building many kits over the years. Clear, concise and detailed but very logical and easy to follow. Build quality of the boards is indeed elegant. Fit and finish is simply excellent. Tolerances are amazing. It is a work of engineering art. Congrats to Eric and Wayne of all of this. They should be proud of their baby. Negative: Yup I have a negative. Of all of the kits I have built over the years, many of them fairly complex, from Heath, LDG, W9GR and many others, this is the first to arrive short parts/hardware. And while the shortage is minor, it is specialized and significant enough to stop me cold in the build process and add yet another week to the final K3 experience. Simply put, it has been deflating. Yet more delay. While Elecraft was attentive to this matter over the phone and in a response from K3Support, I am still not sure if the parts are headed this way as no confirmation has been positively received. This will be my last kit experience. I should have bought it factory assembled as I planned originally. But I bought into the kit mystique. Never again. Concerns: I am both a CW and SSB operator as non-contesting DX'er. SSB TX issues are important to me. Several reports are surfacing here and elsewhere from very reputable sources about the current lack of SSB bandwidth and the lack of more powerful modulation. I urge Elecraft to address these issues ASAP (now perhaps with more priority than the second receiver.) This will be a deal breaker for me if not rectified. IMO it should have been correct out of the box. This K3 will be evaluated against my highly modified Ten Tec Omni V.9 which has for my operating requirements beat out every transceiver on both CW and SSB since its arrival here at this QTH, bar none, including my Pro III which for all its true Rx warts is a pretty darn good value for the $$. I paid my $$ and took my chances and hope that this will all get rectified in the end. And for those of you who may think that I should not air complaints in public, I ask, did yours arrive complete? My $.02 73 de N1LQ-Dave ___ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
Re: [Elecraft] K3: Interim Build Report
I couldn't possibly tell you if my K3s SSB was punchy etc. I don't have enough operating experience (4 yrs operating, with just an FT-857 before the K3, what a great radio for an inexperienced op). I can tell you everyone who hears it, says it is GREAT audio and better than the K2, normally they say best they have ever heard. And I haven't even tried using the Tx equaliser yet. I will also say that my operating had tailed off over the last year, conditions down, high noise floor at this QTH we not encouraging and FT-857 is not an ideal base rig - too many menus and 'hold this, push that, turn this and push that again'. The K3 changed all that, turned me around if you like and I'm getting back into the spirit. On 9/2/08 23:40, mark roz [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Dave, My K3 arrived with all the parts. SSB: There were many postings about SSB mode (including mine). Some how, there was no response from Elecraft about this. I have many friends in EU who are waiting for that DX/Contest audio from K3 before they decide to order one. I don't understand why Elecraft is not responding to this issue. I just would like to know that Elecraft has intention to improve SSB mode. 73 Mark WQ7X -- What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. -Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989) ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
RE: [Elecraft] K3: Interim Build Report
Just a tipwhen making adjustments to either the RX or TX EQ, if you want to reset them to 0 dB, press the CLR button normally used for RIT control. It will reset all the EQ settings to 0 dB and you can start from scratch. 73 Greg AB7R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Ferrington, M0XDF Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:09 AM To: Crafters Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: Interim Build Report I couldn't possibly tell you if my K3s SSB was punchy etc. I don't have enough operating experience (4 yrs operating, with just an FT-857 before the K3, what a great radio for an inexperienced op). I can tell you everyone who hears it, says it is GREAT audio and better than the K2, normally they say best they have ever heard. And I haven't even tried using the Tx equaliser yet. I will also say that my operating had tailed off over the last year, conditions down, high noise floor at this QTH we not encouraging and FT-857 is not an ideal base rig - too many menus and 'hold this, push that, turn this and push that again'. The K3 changed all that, turned me around if you like and I'm getting back into the spirit. On 9/2/08 23:40, mark roz [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Dave, My K3 arrived with all the parts. SSB: There were many postings about SSB mode (including mine). Some how, there was no response from Elecraft about this. I have many friends in EU who are waiting for that DX/Contest audio from K3 before they decide to order one. I don't understand why Elecraft is not responding to this issue. I just would like to know that Elecraft has intention to improve SSB mode. 73 Mark WQ7X -- What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. -Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989) ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
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Dave, My K3 arrived with all the parts. SSB: There were many postings about SSB mode (including mine). Some how, there was no response from Elecraft about this. I have many friends in EU who are waiting for that DX/Contest audio from K3 before they decide to order one. I don't understand why Elecraft is not responding to this issue. I just would like to know that Elecraft has intention to improve SSB mode. 73 Mark WQ7X --- David and Dianne on Comcast [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:22:20 -0500 From: David and Dianne on Comcast [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] K3: Interim Build Report Hi Everyone, As I posted here at mid week, K3 #371 arrived from Aptos in fine shape. I have begun the build and thought I would share some comments both positive and negative with all. You opinions of course will most likely be different but here are mine so far: Positive: The kit was packaged magnificently. The care in packaging is first rate. The manual is by far one of the most comprehensive I have seen in building many kits over the years. Clear, concise and detailed but very logical and easy to follow. Build quality of the boards is indeed elegant. Fit and finish is simply excellent. Tolerances are amazing. It is a work of engineering art. Congrats to Eric and Wayne of all of this. They should be proud of their baby. Negative: Yup I have a negative. Of all of the kits I have built over the years, many of them fairly complex, from Heath, LDG, W9GR and many others, this is the first to arrive short parts/hardware. And while the shortage is minor, it is specialized and significant enough to stop me cold in the build process and add yet another week to the final K3 experience. Simply put, it has been deflating. Yet more delay. While Elecraft was attentive to this matter over the phone and in a response from K3Support, I am still not sure if the parts are headed this way as no confirmation has been positively received. This will be my last kit experience. I should have bought it factory assembled as I planned originally. But I bought into the kit mystique. Never again. Concerns: I am both a CW and SSB operator as non-contesting DX'er. SSB TX issues are important to me. Several reports are surfacing here and elsewhere from very reputable sources about the current lack of SSB bandwidth and the lack of more powerful modulation. I urge Elecraft to address these issues ASAP (now perhaps with more priority than the second receiver.) This will be a deal breaker for me if not rectified. IMO it should have been correct out of the box. This K3 will be evaluated against my highly modified Ten Tec Omni V.9 which has for my operating requirements beat out every transceiver on both CW and SSB since its arrival here at this QTH, bar none, including my Pro III which for all its true Rx warts is a pretty darn good value for the $$. I paid my $$ and took my chances and hope that this will all get rectified in the end. And for those of you who may think that I should not air complaints in public, I ask, did yours arrive complete? My $.02 73 de N1LQ-Dave ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
