[Elecraft] Neat K3 Video!

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> I guess I have to leave you room for your opinion
> Jerry, but it's a newly released radio and the
> function you mention is working as engineered. 
> 
> It's not like the radio is popping finals, has RFI
> shielding problems, or "hangs" periodically.

No, this is a case of "not invented here" - a complete 
failure to understand what is already in the market and 
in the shack of users who would be expected to adopt the 
new radio.  

To Jerry's list I would add a limited implementation of 
RX antenna switching.  Simply expanding the existing 
relay in the KXV3 from DPDT to 4PDT and inverting one 
control line when RX Ant is selected for the main rx 
would allow completely independent selection of receive 
or transmit antenna for the second receiver.  Again, 
like the ALC polarity or sense of the CW inhibit loop, 
it should be relatively easy to hack an external fix 
but it should not be necessary in a radio of this class. 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Rasmussen
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 5:03 PM
> To: Elecraft List
> Subject: [Elecraft] Neat K3 Video!
> 
> 
> Jerry pointed out:
> "The biggest events I have seen are pretty important:
> The reversed polarity of the ALC voltage (K3 ALC
> polarity setup is not presently compatible with widely
> used amps from Yaesu and ICOM" <snip>
> 
> I guess I have to leave you room for your opinion
> Jerry, but it's a newly released radio and the
> function you mention is working as engineered. 
> 
> It's not like the radio is popping finals, has RFI
> shielding problems, or "hangs" periodically.
> 
> I've seen all this and more with other new transceiver
> offerings. It also seems the bad seems to stay far
> longer than anyone would expect. 
>