K3 Replaced Your Pro III?
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Sorry if this has been posted before, but my eyes are bloodshot from searching the archives looking for a relevant post!
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I'm considering selling my Pro III AND my early serial number K2 and getting a K3/100. I like to take my K2 "in the field" car camping, backyard patio, and on occasion, DX-peditions (PJ7/W6JHB) + several outings to NW Maui. The '756 isn't the radio for that, and the K3 appears far superior to the K2. I really don't need to have two HF rigs, if one will suffice for bench-top and portable use. Thus, consolidating into one, relatively high-end rig "seems" like a good choice. However, before I sell my equipment and set the XYL on the war path, I'd like to hear comments, good or bad, from anyone who has owned the 756 Pro III (not a Pro or Pro II) and replaced it with a K3. Thanks, Jim / W6JHB |
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Jim,
What do you want to know? Whether anyone who has owned a Pro3 has replaced it with a K3? The answer to that is yes - hundreds of us - perhaps more. Your description of the K3 as "relatively high-end" is not quite right, as the K3 instead defines "high end" and sets the bar pretty high. You might want to hang on to your K2 for backyard excursions because of its size, but the K3 is substantially better than the Pro3 in most measures. The only area where the K3 is relatively deficient is in not having a built-in pan display, but the P3 seems to fill that void quite well. 73, Bob W5OV > Sorry if this has been posted before, but my eyes are bloodshot from > searching the archives looking for a relevant post! If this HAS been > posted, > please point me to the thread... > > I'm considering selling my Pro III AND my early serial number K2 and > getting > a K3/100. I like to take my K2 "in the field" car camping, backyard patio, > and on occasion, DX-peditions (PJ7/W6JHB) + several outings to NW Maui. > The > '756 isn't the radio for that, and the K3 appears far superior to the K2. > I > really don't need to have two HF rigs, if one will suffice for bench-top > and > portable use. Thus, consolidating into one, relatively high-end rig > "seems" > like a good choice. > > However, before I sell my equipment and set the XYL on the war path, I'd > like to hear comments, good or bad, from anyone who has owned the 756 Pro > III (not a Pro or Pro II) and replaced it with a K3. > > Thanks, Jim / W6JHB > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Replaced-Your-Pro-III-tp4957548p4957548.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Well Jim,you get it,I owned a ProIII for 3 years and it was replaced for my actual K3.
I was always thinking my ProIII was the jewel of hamradios but the day my friend AD4Z loaned me for a week his new K3 for comparison test against my ProIII my heart was broken. The K3 leaves the ProIII way back in the dust.Even the ProIII has an excellent receiver,the lack of roofing filter makes it useless when a strong station comes 2Khz close to your freq,it will desense and the AGC will start pumping badly,also the CW ringing noise starts after DSP selectivity is reduced below 500Hz,that won't happen with the K3. In audio quality terms even the ProIII sounds very good,the K3 has a better quality either on RX and TX. If you like to TX on ESSB,the ProIII has a very simple "bass and treble" equalization for the mic that is limited and sometimes there is no way to EQ properly your audio when the K3 has an excellent 8 bands EQ that will allow you to EQ any type of mic to your your needs. In general the K3 is a much better radio than the ProIII except that if you want to have the spectrum analyzer you will have to spend $700 more to have the P3. Go for it,you won't be disapointed. K3 is a winner and keeper.73 AD4C "For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3" --- On Sun, 4/25/10, Jim bennett <[hidden email]> wrote: From: Jim bennett <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Replaced Your Pro III? To: [hidden email] Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 5:45 AM Sorry if this has been posted before, but my eyes are bloodshot from searching the archives looking for a relevant post! If this HAS been posted, please point me to the thread... I'm considering selling my Pro III AND my early serial number K2 and getting a K3/100. I like to take my K2 "in the field" car camping, backyard patio, and on occasion, DX-peditions (PJ7/W6JHB) + several outings to NW Maui. The '756 isn't the radio for that, and the K3 appears far superior to the K2. I really don't need to have two HF rigs, if one will suffice for bench-top and portable use. Thus, consolidating into one, relatively high-end rig "seems" like a good choice. However, before I sell my equipment and set the XYL on the war path, I'd like to hear comments, good or bad, from anyone who has owned the 756 Pro III (not a Pro or Pro II) and replaced it with a K3. Thanks, Jim / W6JHB -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Replaced-Your-Pro-III-tp4957548p4957548.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Hello Jim,
I was a Pro 3 user as well in the old days. K3 belongs to another class and is aimed at standing along the top liners. Therefore, I would say that K3 will certainly out perform Pro 3 especially in CW. However, K3 is not in the same price range of Pro3 so that it is not quite a like with like comparison. K3 is not inexpensive when you add up all the options such as ATU, General coverage band pass module, additional roofing filters, transverter interface, TCXO, P3 band spectrum, digital voice recorder etc etc. Of course, you have the full liberty to make your own choices among the options. 73 Johnny VR2XMC ----- 郵件原件 ---- 寄件人﹕ Hector Padron <[hidden email]> 收件人﹕ Jim bennett <[hidden email]> 副本(CC) [hidden email] 傳送日期﹕ 2010/4/25 (日) 7:36:07 PM 主題： Re: [Elecraft] K3 Replaced Your Pro III? Well Jim,you get it,I owned a ProIII for 3 years and it was replaced for my actual K3. I was always thinking my ProIII was the jewel of hamradios but the day my friend AD4Z loaned me for a week his new K3 for comparison test against my ProIII my heart was broken. The K3 leaves the ProIII way back in the dust.Even the ProIII has an excellent receiver,the lack of roofing filter makes it useless when a strong station comes 2Khz close to your freq,it will desense and the AGC will start pumping badly,also the CW ringing noise starts after DSP selectivity is reduced below 500Hz,that won't happen with the K3. In audio quality terms even the ProIII sounds very good,the K3 has a better quality either on RX and TX. If you like to TX on ESSB,the ProIII has a very simple "bass and treble" equalization for the mic that is limited and sometimes there is no way to EQ properly your audio when the K3 has an excellent 8 bands EQ that will allow you to EQ any type of mic to your your needs. In general the K3 is a much better radio than the ProIII except that if you want to have the spectrum analyzer you will have to spend $700 more to have the P3. Go for it,you won't be disapointed. K3 is a winner and keeper.73 AD4C "For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3" --- On Sun, 4/25/10, Jim bennett <[hidden email]> wrote: From: Jim bennett <[hidden email]> Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Replaced Your Pro III? To: [hidden email] Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 5:45 AM Sorry if this has been posted before, but my eyes are bloodshot from searching the archives looking for a relevant post! If this HAS been posted, please point me to the thread... I'm considering selling my Pro III AND my early serial number K2 and getting a K3/100. I like to take my K2 "in the field" car camping, backyard patio, and on occasion, DX-peditions (PJ7/W6JHB) + several outings to NW Maui. The '756 isn't the radio for that, and the K3 appears far superior to the K2. I really don't need to have two HF rigs, if one will suffice for bench-top and portable use. Thus, consolidating into one, relatively high-end rig "seems" like a good choice. However, before I sell my equipment and set the XYL on the war path, I'd like to hear comments, good or bad, from anyone who has owned the 756 Pro III (not a Pro or Pro II) and replaced it with a K3. Thanks, Jim / W6JHB -- ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Hi Jim,
Several years ago when I got my K3 (See http://wilcoxengineering.com/amateur-radio/elecraft-k3 ), I had the Icom 746-Pro. Not quite what you have now, but it didn't take me long to sell the Icom. The Icom is a nice rig, but as the other responses indicate, the K3 is far better. I like the Elecraft because it's so easily serviced, and if there's a problem, the folks at Elecraft respond quickly. A person answers the phone, and I really appreciate that. You have a good little K2, and you'll be happy keeping it along with your new K3! 73, Alan Alan D. Wilcox, W3DVX (K2-5373, K3-40) 570-321-1516 http://WilcoxEngineering.com Williamsport, PA 17701 Jim bennett wrote: > Sorry if this has been posted before, but my eyes are bloodshot from > searching the archives looking for a relevant post! If this HAS been posted, > please point me to the thread... > > I'm considering selling my Pro III AND my early serial number K2 and getting > a K3/100. I like to take my K2 "in the field" car camping, backyard patio, > and on occasion, DX-peditions (PJ7/W6JHB) + several outings to NW Maui. The > '756 isn't the radio for that, and the K3 appears far superior to the K2. I > really don't need to have two HF rigs, if one will suffice for bench-top and > portable use. Thus, consolidating into one, relatively high-end rig "seems" > like a good choice. > > However, before I sell my equipment and set the XYL on the war path, I'd > like to hear comments, good or bad, from anyone who has owned the 756 Pro > III (not a Pro or Pro II) and replaced it with a K3. > > Thanks, Jim / W6JHB > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Hello Alan,
I agree with you that K2 is a keeper. K2 is by far the best portable field day radio. With standy current as low as 180mA, it can be run all day long especially nowadays, high capability Li-Po cells are cheaply available. A pack of 3300mAH 12.6v Li-Po cells can keep the K2 happy for a whole day even at 10-15 watt output power. 73 Johnny VR2XMC ----- 郵件原件 ---- 寄件人﹕ Alan D. Wilcox <[hidden email]> 收件人﹕ Jim bennett <[hidden email]> 副本(CC) [hidden email] 傳送日期﹕ 2010/4/25 (日) 9:39:27 PM 主題： Re: [Elecraft] K3 Replaced Your Pro III? Hi Jim, Several years ago when I got my K3 (See http://wilcoxengineering.com/amateur-radio/elecraft-k3 ), I had the Icom 746-Pro. Not quite what you have now, but it didn't take me long to sell the Icom. The Icom is a nice rig, but as the other responses indicate, the K3 is far better. I like the Elecraft because it's so easily serviced, and if there's a problem, the folks at Elecraft respond quickly. A person answers the phone, and I really appreciate that. You have a good little K2, and you'll be happy keeping it along with your new K3! 73, Alan Alan D. Wilcox, W3DVX (K2-5373, K3-40) 570-321-1516 http://WilcoxEngineering.com Williamsport, PA 17701 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I never owned a Pro III, but elecrafts did _prevent_ me from buying one, I'll say that. Actually, it was my K2 that turned me away from it because even the K2 outperforms the Pro III RX by a bit and especially in close-in rejection/desense performance. True I had to build the K2 and it lacks the creature comforts but it's still actually a better basic performing RX (my #1 priority).
There's no comparison with the K3, which is just better in every respect I could come up with. The Pro III has the pretty screen, but that didn't make the sacrifice in basic performance worth it to me. In fact, I haven't been able to find an RX that exceeds the overall performance of the K3 yet period, except the new Yaesu or maybe the 7800 or something like that..... The bang/buck is heavily in favor of both the K2 and K3 by just about any metric for me. YMMV, tho.... 73, LS W5QD |
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My K3 has replaced the following;
IC7800, IC7700, IC7600, and PROIII. Yes it was stupid for me to have all those Icoms. More money than good sense. It's the price I pay for hands on. I quit asking a long time ago for peoples opinions on what I should have. I try for myself. The only thing I don't care for on the K3 is the speaker audio for voice. Most everybody else I know does not have a problem with it. And I don't anymore since I operate 99% CW at this time. The K3 is the only HF/6m XCVR that I've never regretted getting. The build quality, the company leadership and location, the support from the company, the dynamic presence of K3 enthusiasts on the internet forums and email reflectors are things that all make something that nobody can touch right now. NOBODY!!! Even if for whatever reason you decided after purchasing and using the K3 you did not like it, you would have no trouble selling it, and would probably lose very little (if any!) of your money investment. I'll also speak from experience on this from earlier last year when I traded a used a K3 to another ham for a fully filtered Orion II/566AT which is also fine radio. I kicked myself for many months after that, and now finally have a K3/100 again. There is only one Icom HF/6m xcvr left here on the table, a second IC7700 that will probably be up for sale cheap since it gets no use these days. Sorry for the long ramble. I'll bet there are many others that feel the same way. |
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Johnny,
I can't say that I've done much portable with K2 or K3 ... that 35 amp-hour gel-cell that I use is too heavy to lug around, even with the handle that's build onto it. It's my emergency backup, and it can keep either radio going for quite awhile (at least until I fire up the generator!) 73, Alan Alan D. Wilcox, W3DVX (K2-5373, K3-40) 570-321-1516 http://WilcoxEngineering.com Williamsport, PA 17701 Johnny Siu wrote: > Hello Alan, > > I agree with you that K2 is a keeper. K2 is by far the best portable field day radio. With standy current as low as 180mA, it can be run all day long especially nowadays, high capability Li-Po cells are cheaply available. > > A pack of 3300mAH 12.6v Li-Po cells can keep the K2 happy for a whole day even at 10-15 watt output power. > > 73 > > Johnny VR2XMC > > > > ----- 郵件原件 ---- > 寄件人﹕ Alan D. Wilcox <[hidden email]> > 收件人﹕ Jim bennett <[hidden email]> > 副本(CC) [hidden email] > 傳送日期﹕ 2010/4/25 (日) 9:39:27 PM > 主題： Re: [Elecraft] K3 Replaced Your Pro III? > > Hi Jim, > > Several years ago when I got my K3 (See > http://wilcoxengineering.com/amateur-radio/elecraft-k3 ), > I had the Icom 746-Pro. Not quite what you have now, but it didn't take > me long to sell the Icom. > > The Icom is a nice rig, but as the other responses indicate, the K3 is > far better. I like the Elecraft > because it's so easily serviced, and if there's a problem, the folks at > Elecraft respond quickly. > A person answers the phone, and I really appreciate that. > > You have a good little K2, and you'll be happy keeping it along with > your new K3! > > 73, Alan > > Alan D. Wilcox, W3DVX (K2-5373, K3-40) > 570-321-1516 > http://WilcoxEngineering.com > Williamsport, PA 17701 > > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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After evaluating my K3 (S/N 56) I sold an FT-1000D,
FT-990 and IC-756 PRO II on e-Bay ... and my K2's no slouch either. (:-) 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP [hidden email] http://tinyurl.com/7lm3m5 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I always enjoy the Reflector coments, educational and occasionally funny. I own the K-2, K-3 and PRO 111. This site is great PR for Elecraft, but we should remember that their expensive wattmeter is inaccurate to the extreme although pretty, and the P3 (in my opinion anyway) appears to be pure fluff for a lot of bucks. While I like Elecraft, particularly the K-2, irrespective of all the testing results you can find ad nauseum all over the Internet, I find the PRO 111 equal to the K-3 and a lot easier to master. I intend to keep both and will still use the K-2 more than the K-3 or PRO 111, primarily QRP on 40. I think which radio you prefer is just a matter of personal choice and your level of frustration; the PRO 111 is basically plug-and-play while both the K-2 and K-3 demand excessive fine tuning, calibration, adjustments, and searching menu after menu for the simplest of tasks. These are trade-offs. Enjoy the hobby, but be careful what you wish for; those Japanese radios earned their markets. 73.
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Neither has Rob Sherwood...INCLUDING the IC-7800 (#14 on his list below): http://www.sherweng.com/table.html Time (and testing) will tell on the Yaesu FT5000 but I'm sure its Sub RX will be worse than its Main RX. 73, Bill |
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Whilst I find your comments on the PROIII are correct in that it is an intuitive radio to use I am surprised at your level of enthusiasm. Recently we had a field day in VK and a good friend of mine who owns a PROIII and has always liked it after he used both of mine in the shack many times which got him hooked and he sold his FT-990 to buy the PROIII, he again used my K3 for several hours and made the comment that he preferred the K3 over the PROIII because the quality of the K3 receiver was definately better. I have now got my K3 set up to the point whereby I rarely have to touch any of the menu options. When we tried to set up the PROIII receiver to produce good audio with DSP activated on 160 and 80M we found it very difficult to copy any station that was close to the noise floor. We tried turning the AGC OFF on both radios and rode the RF Gain and the results were strikingly different. The K3 had even better copy but the PROIII struggled and the copy was very tiring on the ears. (SSB was used) We were using a Heil Pro Set on the PROIII and Yamaha CM500 on the K3, and we both agreed that the external speaker on the K3 was pretty awful to both our ears...(Grin)... The noise on both the bands was releatively high at the time and where the K3 DSP was excellent, the PROIII was again struggling to make good copy. Reducing receive bandwidth on the radios again produced a strikingly different result. The K3 was able to work at 1.20 BW yet the PROIII was unintelligble for practical copy and was quite hard to listen too. We also tried an FT-847 which the owner was very much in love with and he too found it difficult to copy the signals that were easily copied on the K3. We all came to the conclusion that the K3 receiver was indeed superior as the independant labs have shown and although sometimes these may be marginal improvements to the human ear, they do nevertheless show that the K3 is a very good radio. Although no longer made, the PROIII was the final evolution in ICOM's fine tuning by box replacement, of a radio that had been in production for years and my humble opinion is that it took a long time for them to respond to issues with this model and your only option was to upgrade by total replacement which is not cost effective for most of us. Well as a result of the field day, Jeff, the proud owner of the FT-847 has sold the radio and awaiting the arrival of his new K3. Dale, still has the PROIII but is now making noises that he would like to upgrade to a K3 if the "Border Patrol" will allow him...(:-)) We all have different perceptions of what makes a good radio, we all have varying degrees of what "sounds" good, but to my way of thinking it comes down to what you hear, not what you are told that is the only way you can make a valued decision when it comes to purchasing a new radio. When I turn on the K3 I miss the plain old fashioned band buttons but I have learnt to get by without them, I don't miss the Bandscope on the PROIII but then again I never used it that much, I don't miss the PROIII, but, when I sent my K3 to Aptos to get some updates and mods done I was forced to use my "Poverty Pack" radio, a TS-480SAT, and I guess I bitched so much about it my friends told me to get over it...(:-))...now the TS-480SAT has been sold off and I think I will just get another K3 to keep the current child company and they can play together while I am not around...(Grin) Aside from all that I have said, I found my PROIII's ( I had 2 of them) gave me reliable performance and I had no service issues, my FTdx-9000D was a total disaster and I lost all faith in Yaesu as a result and I also sold off the FT-2000D. That was one radio that needed to be fiddled with on almost every band change to get it to sound good on receive audio. I am portable of course and this severely limits my choices in radios. Most of the modern day radios do not like battery power when the voltage starts to drop, yes there are devices around that help, but they can produce their own issues also. The K3 has done a great job for over 2 years now. It get's to travel around a bit and most folks would say it has a hard life in comparison to others that get to live in the same nice shack all year round. I would not disagree with your comments on the P3, I don't know if I would get any benefit from it either as I remember I did not seem to use, or miss, the display on the PROIII. I would be interested in a P3 IF it evolves into a Spec-An type display whereby it will display true audio IN/OUT with an option to record the waveform displayed and could be saved to a Laptop. I can't comment on the W2, or any other high end wattmeter as I have not used anything other than an external CN-501 series cross needle meter. I use an analyser when I want to check my antennas and rely on the K3 swr display for general use. I use a 4 el;ement tri-band yagi and a 40M double extended Zepp 99% of the time. I have used EZ_K3 to plot both antennas and set the memories in the ATU. YMMV 73's Gary K3 #679 On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:23 AM, KM4VX <[hidden email]> wrote: > > I always enjoy the Reflector coments, educational and occasionally funny. I > own the K-2, K-3 and PRO 111. This site is great PR for Elecraft, but we > should remember that their expensive wattmeter is inaccurate to the extreme > although pretty, and the P3 (in my opinion anyway) appears to be pure > fluff > for a lot of bucks. While I like Elecraft, particularly the K-2, > irrespective of all the testing results you can find ad nauseum all over > the > Internet, I find the PRO 111 equal to the K-3 and a lot easier to master. > I > intend to keep both and will still use the K-2 more than the K-3 or PRO > 111, > primarily QRP on 40. I think which radio you prefer is just a matter of > personal choice and your level of frustration; the PRO 111 is basically > plug-and-play while both the K-2 and K-3 demand excessive fine tuning, > calibration, adjustments, and searching menu after menu for the simplest > of > tasks. These are trade-offs. Enjoy the hobby, but be careful what you wish > for; those Japanese radios earned their markets. 73. > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Replaced-Your-Pro-III-tp4957548p4959337.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I love you Elecraft folks! I will buy one
of your wife’s cases one of these days soon. Take care Mr & Mrs Kopp es vy 73,
terry ku5q From: Ken Kopp-3 [via
Elecraft] [mailto:[hidden email]] After evaluating my K3
(S/N 56) I sold an FT-1000D, View message @ http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-Replaced-Your-Pro-III-tp4957548p4959118.html
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Oh dear - I feel a thread shutdown coming on, so gg to say my piece quick hi hi.
Yeah, it's a little embarrassing how much $ you have to spend to even achieve the performance level of the K2... much less the K3.... Tho the ergonomics of the K3 are a problem for many OM's too and I can respect that. Even I still keep punching the band switch when I'm trying to change modes and still keep the user's manual on the table for the (increasingly rare) occasions when I have to go into the CONFIG menu. But I'm the guy who can get used to any UI in the world if it means using a good and suitable product (I ran Linux with TWM as my only window manager on my old PC for a few years) and for me the K2 and K3 have spoiled all other rigs for me. Now all I need is an antenna and I'm good to go hi hi... 73, LS W5QD |
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OK folks - I've gotten some very good information. Someone had asked what information I was looking for. Kinda thought I had made that fairly clear - but I was simply interested to know how convertees liked their K3 compared to the Pro III. Lots of replies, and not one person said that it was a horrible mistake, or that they were sorry they did it. And that is exactly what I was interested in - if you felt it was a good decision and if you were happy with the K3's performance.
So, now I've got a HUGE task before me. My Pro III is in it's original box, buried in a "U-Store-It" bin that is 30' deep, 10' wide, 10' high. And you guessed it, that box was the first thing put in storage. OMG, it is not gonna be fun getting to it!  p.s. - quite certain that a return trip to PJ7-land is NOT going to happen. Sorry. That was back in the pre-parenthood days. Now have a 2-yr old son (yeah, I know - at MY age???); vacation priorities & destinations have been drastically altered. As far as I'm concerned, "the thread is dead." Thanks all, and 73 - Jim/W6JHB |
Re: K3 Replaced Your Pro III?
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In reply to this post by Alan D. Wilcox, W3DVX
The Elecraft K-3 is far superior to the Pro III in just about every respect.
In the Receiver Test Data report from Sherwood Engineering, looking at 2KHz overload data for the receiver, the K-3 is #1 and the Pro III is some 20 to 30 units down the list with just about every radio on the market today being better. That is on narrow spaced tests only. If you are looking for a QRM fighter, the K-3 is at the top of the pile. 73 Bob, K4TAX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan D. Wilcox" <[hidden email]> To: "Jim bennett" <[hidden email]> Cc: <[hidden email]> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Replaced Your Pro III? > Hi Jim, > > Several years ago when I got my K3 (See > http://wilcoxengineering.com/amateur-radio/elecraft-k3 ), > I had the Icom 746-Pro. Not quite what you have now, but it didn't take > me long to sell the Icom. > > The Icom is a nice rig, but as the other responses indicate, the K3 is > far better. I like the Elecraft > because it's so easily serviced, and if there's a problem, the folks at > Elecraft respond quickly. > A person answers the phone, and I really appreciate that. > > You have a good little K2, and you'll be happy keeping it along with > your new K3! > > 73, Alan > > Alan D. Wilcox, W3DVX (K2-5373, K3-40) > 570-321-1516 > http://WilcoxEngineering.com > Williamsport, PA 17701 > > > Jim bennett wrote: >> Sorry if this has been posted before, but my eyes are bloodshot from >> searching the archives looking for a relevant post! If this HAS been >> posted, >> please point me to the thread... >> >> I'm considering selling my Pro III AND my early serial number K2 and >> getting >> a K3/100. I like to take my K2 "in the field" car camping, backyard >> patio, >> and on occasion, DX-peditions (PJ7/W6JHB) + several outings to NW Maui. >> The >> '756 isn't the radio for that, and the K3 appears far superior to the K2. >> I >> really don't need to have two HF rigs, if one will suffice for bench-top >> and >> portable use. Thus, consolidating into one, relatively high-end rig >> "seems" >> like a good choice. >> >> However, before I sell my equipment and set the XYL on the war path, I'd >> like to hear comments, good or bad, from anyone who has owned the 756 Pro >> III (not a Pro or Pro II) and replaced it with a K3. >> >> Thanks, Jim / W6JHB >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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