[Elecraft] Moosehorn Amateur Radio Club K3-100w Demo

[Bill Tippett]

(Copy of message on Yahoo K3 reflector...note that N6TRE
should actually be N6TR (well-known contest op).

                                 73,  Bill  W4ZV

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Elecraft_K3/message/140

What a great radio to say the least. N6TRE brought the K3-100w
without auto tuner to our Hamfest today and talked about using it and
answered questions. N6TRE is a beta tester and does not work for
Elecraft.
He indicated that this transceiver will be as good or better then any
Amateur radio like the more expensive ones i.e. $10,00.00. The dynamic
range is extremely good. He also opened the radio up by removing the
top and bottom. There is not much in it to look at. The heat sink is
the biggest part and looks to be the heaviest also. They have been
running it at 125W output with no heat build up. They ran it as a 10
meter beacon for 2 hours at full power and indicated that it ran
without any problems. They have been using it and supplying feed back
to the design engineers while they are testing it. It appears
Elecraft is full bore on getting this radio right. KL7RA also
indicated that his use of it on CW proved to back up N6TRE comment
about the dynamic range.
This radio is going to be the top contesting rig to have. It appears
the first run is going to be about 250 units. The question was asked if
delivery is on track and N6TRE could not answer the question as he did
not know. This rig had the 2.8Khz 8 pole filter in it and N6TRE liked
the filter as the standard filter of 2.7Khz was not available when it
was shipped up to Alaska late last week. I would like to thank
Elecraft for getting this radio up to Alaska in time for the HamFest,
they shipped it early to do this. I will try and post some pictures
of the unit opened up on the web site. Kl7RA also commented that
there will be a learning curve on getting up to full use of this
radio. You won't just open the box and power it up and be talking.
They had a beta copy of the manual but I did not get a chance to look
at it. I have one ordered but ordered late, so I am in the Oct.
shipping schedule.
It's going to define Amateur radio for the for-see-able future and it
will be from the USA, with the Elecraft great customer service.
No I am not working for Elecraft just very impressed with the radio
and with the responses form talking to the factory about my order.

KL1J
Jim