[Elecraft] Fun question - Purchase price if K2/100 with optionsispurchased assembled

[Tom Althoff]

I agree with Adi.

I'm sitting here with a check for $3,300 that arrived yesterday from the
sale of my Orion to K9FLY.   A ham in Germany got the Orion speaker, Inrad
filter and microphone for $200.

I took $280 and bought the KAT100-1 auto-tuner for my K2/100.

The Orion has better ultimate selectivity, dual RX, general coverage,
pseudo-dual-diversity and better SSB transmit capability and voice keyer.

It is also large and heavy.  You can fit four K2's inside an Orion.  You
have to press a button before you can change the RF gain, keyer speed or
power level (PITA).

I had both rigs side by side for 2 months and there was never a time under
crowded contest conditions or deliberate jamming that the K2 didn't keep up
with the Orion.  Those were real world conditions.  Whenever the Orion
impressed me by pulling the VU4 out of the noise or a JA on 160 in a pileup
I would switch over to the K2 and was even more amazed that I could pull it
out on the little box too.

A wired version under $2,000 would be reasonable.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S55M" <s55m at siol.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fun question - Purchase price if K2/100 with
optionsispurchased assembled


> Do you compare this radio to an FT1000` an Orion, TS950SDX? (That
> > > would be incredible to me if it was regarded that highly.).
>
> Incredible things happen from time to time....at least in CW
>
>
> S55M-Adi
> K2-Nr3204
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian Mury" <ve7ngr at rac.ca>
> To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 5:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fun question - Purchase price if K2/100 with
options
> ispurchased assembled
>
>
> > On Tue, 2005-04-01 at 19:28 -0500, Richard Merhar wrote:
> > > What would you pay for a K2/100 with all options (DSP) if it was
> > > available as an assembled unit? Take into account the transceivers you
> > > have compared the K2 with, and let me know what you think it is worth.
> > > I am trying to ascertain the perception of what value people would
> > > place on this radio if it was not a kit.
> > > I have heard that it is worth twice as much as the kit price, do you
> > > agree?
> >
> > If it was available factory-assembled for less than the cost of the kit,
> > I would still buy the kit. I suppose that doesn't help you determine the
> > value... :-)
> >
> > > Do you compare this radio to an FT1000` an Orion, TS950SDX? (That
> > > would be incredible to me if it was regarded that highly.).
> >
> > But of course!
> >
> > -- 
> > 73, Brian
> > VE7NGR
> >
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