Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-22 Thread Hector Padron
review in Radcom To: elecraft elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 9:49 PM It seems as if Peter Hart, having pushed the K3 into second place after the Perseus SDR (in his Radcom review a month ago) for close-in strong signal performance (I was very surprised not to see that mentioned

Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-22 Thread Bob Cunnings
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Hector Padron ad4c2...@yahoo.com wrote: Third in place ??? I will not believe it until I see the performance reports from Sherwood labs. AD4C Why not? I wouldn't be surprised to see incremental improvement in this area, now that it is finally receiving the

Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-22 Thread Hector Padron
...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010, 3:14 PM On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Hector Padron ad4c2...@yahoo.com wrote: Third in place ??? I will not believe it until I see the performance reports from Sherwood labs. AD4C

Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-22 Thread Stephen Prior
--- On Sat, 5/22/10, Bob Cunnings bob.cunni...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bob Cunnings bob.cunni...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010, 3:14 PM On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Hector Padron ad4c2

Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-22 Thread Toby Pennington
Hector, I would not get too excited about a few DBs on way or another. It is just not going to make that much difference. Also, diversity receive with the 5000 is not going to work as well as in the K3. The bothersome thing about the FT dx 5000 mp to me is the weight.another 52

Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-22 Thread Phil Hystad
I think the idea of competition is good for all so having Yaesu or Kenwood come out with rigs that challenge Elecraft is a good thing. However, in all this kind of talk I never see or hear of the best reason to go with Elecraft -- at least from my own perspective. It is that these guys, Eric

[Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-22 Thread Edward R Cole
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[Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom/ new DXPedition

2010-05-22 Thread Hector Padron
review in Radcom To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010, 4:07 PM Hector,  I would not get too excited about a few DBs on way or another.   It is just not going to make that much difference.  Also,  diversity receive with the  5000 is not going to work as well as in the K3

Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-22 Thread Eric Tichansky
Toby Pennington wrote: Strong points for the K3, lighter weight, easy to ship, repairs are not expensive, and can be done in the field on occasion. Great performance...also a great rig for portable operation.The only negative is the user interface which is not really that great

[Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-21 Thread Stephen Prior
It seems as if Peter Hart, having pushed the K3 into second place after the Perseus SDR (in his Radcom review a month ago) for close-in strong signal performance (I was very surprised not to see that mentioned in this forum), has now pushed it one further place down, following his review of the

Re: [Elecraft] FT5000 review in Radcom

2010-05-21 Thread Bill W4ZV
Stephen Prior wrote: closer reading of the article reveals criticism in other areas of the new radio's performance, for example the frequency disparity between its dual receivers, and the resulting effect on diversity reception. That's very interesting. I predicted this before units