[Elecraft] K3 competition from Icom?

[AD6XY]

Of course it is competition, in the popularity stakes if not in performance. 

It may not have as good a receiver performance as the K3 but it looks very
good, the receiver is very probably quite good enough for many people and it
has a few popular features which are not yet available in the K3 - e.g. the
built in spectrum scope, a USB port, more than one antenna output, control
for an external ATU. Not everyone feels they need the best possible receiver
performance, other issues come into the equation. If the price is good, I
expect is will sell well, just like the 756 Pro III it replaces.

This does not matter as Elecraft and ICOM are adressing very different
markets. It is great to see the major companies producing new radios with
higher performance and improved features, it would be awful if this
development stopped, so we must not discourage them.

Mike



DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
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> not in my opinion!
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