To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Raised K3DSPUPGD price?
The K3DSPUPGD was expensive at the old price, bearing in mind the cost of
carriage and return. Now the price is verging on the obscene. For the
money you'll get a Rev B board with a few component changes and the added
LPF
srife wrote:
Not a shortfall on Elecrafts end. They designed it that way.
Consumers have driven some of the changes that have been made, like this
one. If Elecraft gets enough feedback on a certain item, then they
redesign
to address the wants and needs of the consumer. You
In a recent message, Julian, G4ILO julian.g4...@gmail.com wrote ...
But I wonder if the promised fix to the synthesizer microphony issue will be
another board swap?
Are you sure it is a microphony issue, Julian? I find that if I flick
one of the interconnecting cables to the KRX2 I get an
Sorry guys, I didn't wanted to start an arguing about if it is cheap or
expensive, who have to pay more for sh or if it is necessary or not.
It just surprised me to see that it is suddenly $20 more without an
announcement like before.
I didn't wanted to upgrade because of the better audio or the
Julian, G4ILO wrote:
As you say, no-one is forcing anyone to upgrade. I don't think K3DSPUPGD is
an essential upgrade. There are workarounds: use high impedance headphones,
plug the phones into the rear speaker socket or do the mods yourself (at
your risk) as a few people have done.
I
Did I miss something? When was the price for the K3DSPUPGD raised?
A couple of days ago it was still $69,95 and today I saw it is $89,95.
Too bad there was no announcement about. I would have placed an order
before.
For one who think stop whining please consider that you'll have add
another 100
What is the price without sending the old one back?
Might be cheaper
73 de Dick PA3FQA
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From: DC1RS rs...@hotmail.com
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:06 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] Raised K3DSPUPGD price?
Did I miss something? When
Dick Grolleman wrote:
What is the price without sending the old one back?
Might be cheaper
I think someone said a few days ago the full price of the DSP board was over
$300.
Even the exchange price is a lot to pay for a small improvement in audio,
when the primary DSP functionality
Roland,
Yes, 2 way trip of the DSP board is not worth while for us, DXs.
Fortunately, changing 2 capacitors is easy job and hope that LPF plate will
be available alone. And there is another solution, if you need better low
frequency response. Simply plug the headphones in the loudspeaker jack.
I installed the K3DSPUPGD this past Saturday. It took about 30 minutes
including finding the dropped washers from the floor.
The results are delightful. The sound is cleaner and not nearly as
fatiguing as before particularly on narrow bandwidth CW. Mine is one of the
early K3s. The
The K3DSPUPGD was expensive at the old price, bearing in mind the cost of
carriage and return. Now the price is verging on the obscene. For the money
you'll get a Rev B board with a few component changes and the added LPF board.
For those who can use a soldering iron, the W9AC bass
, December 23, 2009 5:53 PM
To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Raised K3DSPUPGD price?
The K3DSPUPGD was expensive at the old price, bearing in mind the cost of
carriage and return. Now the price is verging on the obscene. For the
money you'll get a Rev B board with a few
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