If you're anticipating a treat when you get your hands on a K3 to operate
for the first time, you'll be blown away with two of them in a SO2R
configuration. I ran two K3s tonight in the NCCC Sprint and experienced yet
another level of operating pleasure. Incomparable. Prior to this, with the
K3 in one ear and another radio it the other ear, the K3 was strikingly
better to listen with. But, with both radios being K3's, it is wholly
different than any prior operating session. It feels like I entered a new
hobby.
And, even after three months of operating the K3, I'm still not fully
accustomed to its many features and performance. Tonight, for example, I
would sometimes switch both sides of the headphones to one K3. But, it
sounded like only one earpiece was working. I ignored that until after
Sprint and then discovered that, yes, there was audio in each side when
switched to one radio. It only sounded like the signal was in one spot
because I had the AFX Binaural feature turned on. This effect was
accentuated by the much lower noise component in the audio of the K3, even
on 40, 80 and 160. So, it appeared like only one earpiece was working, when
in fact several great features of the K3 were combining to put the CW signal
in a precise spot in my sensory perception. With the K3, my brain needs to
be re-trained to copy CW without the background rumble of noise and
distortion and extraneous artifacts that I hear with other radios. And the
AFX feature in this significantly higher fidelity environment is simply
stunning.
I apologize for feeding any "K3 arrival anxiety" some of you may have, but
continue to be patient ... Aptos is pushing these puppies out the door. You
may also be REALLY miffed that someone is enjoying two K3s when you don't
yet have your first one. But, its only because I was one of the first to
put my money down when it was introduced at Visalia in April, in addition to
being a field tester. (I remember asking Eric if it was a problem for me to
put down a deposit on a production unit when I was already on the field test
team. He replied, "Heck no, if you pay money, you're a customer. We don't
discriminate!")
73,
Ed - W0YK
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