Is it Competition

[george fritkin]

Check.  ARRL test for the TS990 is on their site.  Interesting results

George, W6GF
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[Fred Smith-2]

If the TS-990 was meant to be completive it really missed the mark in
performance and price. With many radios coming in ahead of it in both, only
first it has garnered was amount of knobs and buttons 8>).


73,
Fred/N0AZZ
K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 5210--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
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Check.  ARRL test for the TS990 is on their site.  Interesting results

George, W6GF
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[Gary NL7Y]

To be brief...I owned my first K3/P3 together with a KW TS-590. I preferred the K3 for weak CW in my city QRN, but decided to leave Elecraft until their products matured. The 590 is nice, and while it has a few warts, works ok for me.

Four years later...I bought and tested for almost a month a TS-990 against my 590. I felt the 590 was as, if not more, capable than the 990's main receiver, and equal to the sub receiver on weak CW 20-160M in the presence of city QRN. I didn't test it in a crowded contest. The 990 has lots of features and interface bling.

I sold the 990 at a loss to revisit the K3/P3. I find that the K3/P3 have matured, and fully filtered still does better dealing with weak CW than my 590.

73, Gary NL7Y