K3 - One Heckuva Radio

[Don Rasmussen]

At one time, I sat in front of an FT1000D and felt the
same thing. I stopped by a field day setup on Saturday
and the FT1000 seemed so "retro". Still a good-good
transceiver, but dated.

I didn't like the 500hz filter noise, it's lack of
flexibility of bandwidth, or any of the 4 AGC
settings. I left thinking "how could they not have ONE
K3 at this multi setup"?

No - I didn't offer mine. ;-)

Oh well, it was a crummy year for band conditions this
time and K3 will "shine" this Fall. With the
subreceivers unleashed, the full power of K3 will be
brought to the table.



[Elecraft] K3 - One Heckuva Radio
Lee Buller k0wa at swbell.net
Sun Jun 29 10:03:44 EDT 2008

Ladies and Gents....

I am sure that you all know this by now....but the K3
is one great radio  Field Day was a joy to operate on
both CW and SSB.  There were stations close in and I
never knew they were there.  The receiver is fantastic
and the transmitter very durable, never giving me any
trouble in a "contesting" mode.

What else can you say....the K3 beats every rig I've
ever owned....and I have had quite a few.

Impressed - grateful - astounded - flabbergasted -
awestruck as to how the radio performs.  It is truly a
radio marvel.  The highest "art" of design.  

Lee - K0WA


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[Tom-5]

Lee Buller wrote:

>but the K3 is one great radio Field Day was a joy to operate on both
CW and SSB.
>There were stations close in and I never knew they were there.

   Actually, the K3 has started a new ham-social problem of the have
and have nots. I noticed with my K3 at the K8DAA field day site,
that I could copy just about anything.
But many were not hearing me due to AGC pumping/lockout of signals some
5-10kHz away. It was very noticable. We had a K3 on 20 cw about 300 feet
from a K3 on SSB, and we never knew the other guy was there (This deals
with raw RF overload).

   But that receiver, well, maybe it's "too" good?  ;)

   Tom K8TB




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