[Elecraft] The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of K3

[Rick Tavan N6XI]

>From my article in the recently published Sept/Oct issue of NCJ, emphasis
added just now:

"The K3 also sounds like a "real" radio. This is not to be taken for granted
in the DSP era. Some contemporary radios exhibit a distinctive,
"remanufactured" sound that I dislike, replete with annoying digital
processing artifacts. The K3 sounds like an analog radio but has the
excellent pass-band agility, mode flexibility and features that DSP
provides. It is a very quiet radio with low internal hiss and noise but
enough gain to avoid wimping out on the high bands."

There is more to say than that, of course, but that is sort of the bottom
line. I have always held out the Drake R4C and the Kenwood TS-930 as two of
the best sounding radios ever. I seem to recall liking the Collins 75S3B,
too, but it was so long ago that I can't trust my memory. In the recent CW
Sprint, I found for the first time that I preferred the audio of Rig A to
that of my still-running TS-930 in the Rig B position. Rig A was my field
test K3.

73,

/Rick N6XI