Due to my mobility issues, I have two stations set up in my house--one with a newer K3S, and one with my old buddy K3 #2545. Number 2545 has been upgraded over the years several times, and about a year ago I sent her back to the mothership to get the full set of upgrades that became available with the K3S.
However, for whatever reason--maybe 10 years of fiddling with every single setting, or maybe just that the K3S is in an electrically noisier part of the house--I can still pull signals out of the noise more easily with the old girl. It sounds silly, but I'm really attached to her. Maybe it's just because she was the first radio I ever owned in nearly a half-century of hamming that was state-of-the art. Maybe it's because she and her brick-wall roofing filters allowed me to get back on 2m EME when a new, very loud local station completely wiped me off the air with my old radio. For whatever reason, K3 #2545 will always be my favorite radio.
I hope we're together for many years to come--even if she gets a K4 sibling eventually. Thanks, Elecraft. My apologies for the bandwidth.
73 Eric WD6DBM
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