K3 - Still an Excellent Contest Rig
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K3 - Still an Excellent Contest Rig
 
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For all the discussion on knobs and software issues....the K3 is the best rig I've ever owned for CW contesting (or any mode of operation). A dream to operated in the recent NAQP CW Contest.. Flawless in execution. Sturdy for extended hard operation. Receiver is superb. It can only get better. Yes, I have drank the Cool-Aid...and it was Goooooooood. Viva Elecraft..... Lee Buller - K0WA One Satisfied Customer The New Kansas QSO Party - August 29, Sat 9am-9pm and August 30 Sun 9am-3pm CDT More Info at: http://www.ksqsoparty.org/ In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. Is Common Sense divine? ______________________________________________________________ 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 agree. As long as you don't have to touch the buttons on the front
panel and let the logging software change your bands and modes - just use the VFO, AF/RF Gain, Width and RIT knobs, it's an unbeatable radio. And I didn't drink the Kool-Aid! Thanks for the Q in NAQP. 73 Hank K8DD Lee Buller wrote: > > For all the discussion on knobs and software issues....the K3 is the best rig I've ever owned for CW contesting (or any mode of operation). A dream to operated in the recent NAQP CW Contest.. Flawless in execution. Sturdy for extended hard operation. Receiver is superb. It can only get better. > > Yes, I have drank the Cool-Aid...and it was Goooooooood. > > Viva Elecraft..... > > Lee Buller - K0WA > One Satisfied Customer ____________________________________________________________ Receive Notifications of Incoming Messages Easily monitor multiple email accounts & access them with a click. Visit http://www.inbox.com/notifier and check it out! ______________________________________________________________ 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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In reply to this post by k0wa@swbell.net
I could not agree more. We used mine at the WS4Y FD for the CW station and it was roundly praised by some very accomplished CW contesters. So far FD has been my only chance to try it in contest conditions but I'm thinking about a serious effort in the 160 CW contests this winter.
73, Bill NZ0T
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Does anybody buy a piece of ham gear for the knobs? That's it? The knobs?
I had a knob split on my K3. Elecraft replaced it right away. In the mail by the time I hung up the phone. Case closed. You can bet behind the scenes Wayne is really annoyed busting mfr chops about getting knobs that don't split without having to raise the price 200 bux for machined knobs. What did the guy say, a little expensive? Yeah, just a little... It's a radio. I want to hear stuff. I can get knobs on stuff that doesn't hear. If I want to get tactile, I turn on the old 75A3. Nuthin modern FEELS like the old Collins gear. Heavy metal, R390A, wonderful gear mechanisms. But none of them HEAR like the K3. K3 is the first out-of-the-box modern radio that I am sure will always hear CW better than a R390A. But the original 1954 purchase price (this was the *reduced cost* version of the R390) in current dollars would be around $24,000. You can get real nice knobs on a $24,000 radio. 73, Guy. ______________________________________________________________ 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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<quote author=".k8dd.-2"> As long as you don't have to touch the buttons on the front panel and let the logging software change your bands and modes 73 Hank K8DD What did you mean by that? John N1JM |
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Oh good grief... what is it about a dissenting opinion that gets people
riled up in this group? So I didn't like the knobs. I'm not the only one. The K3 is a damn good radio, and I've said that more than once. However, it isn't perfect. Nothing is. I felt like I had improved my K3 with the installation of those aftermarket knobs. To me, I'm a little happier using my radio now than before. And you know what? It still hears stuff... just with stronger knobs. I didn't realize that experimentation, improvisation, and the general spirit of amateur radio excluded knobs. I can't understand why one wouldn't want to have box that hears well and has a great tactile feel to boot... 73 de James K2QI ______________________________________________________________ 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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John N1JM wrote:
>> >> >> As long as you don't have to touch the buttons on the front >> panel and let the logging software change your bands and modes >> >> >> 73 Hank K8DD >> > > > What did you mean by that? > > John N1JM At first I thought it was me, but I've heard from a couple other K3 owners. There are several buttons/switches on the front panel that I can press (tap or hold - it doesn't make a difference) and sometimes nothing happens. Then there are times that I want to switch sidebands (ALT) and I hold the button and sometimes it switches 1, 2, or 3 modes and then reverses the sideband. Same thing has happened with the BAND buttons. And I no longer have a light touch on the buttons. And, yes, I have turned on the button beeps and confirmed that when nothing happens, there are no beeps and when there are multiple actions the beeps are strange. This is the 4th or 5th front panel board that has been in the radio, and this one is better. One ham said that I just know when to press them when they aren't being scanned! But happens on mine and I've done it on both K3s at the booth in Hamcom. My K3 did make a trip back to Elecraft and they checked out the front panel (among other things) and said the buttons/switches are fine. My logging programs (Logger32, Writelog, N1MM and Win-Test) keep me from using a lot of the buttons/switches - and that's fine. It's still the best receiver I've ever used in spite of the buttons/switches and knobs! 73 Hank K8DD ______________________________________________________________ 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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