Fwd: [Elecraft] K3: Interim Build Report

[mark roz]

Dave,

My K3 arrived with all the parts.

SSB:

There were many postings about SSB mode (including
mine).
Some how, there was no response from Elecraft about
this.
I have many friends in EU who are waiting for that
DX/Contest audio from K3 before they decide to order
one.
I don't understand why Elecraft is not responding to
this issue. I just would like to know that Elecraft
has intention to improve SSB mode.
73 Mark WQ7X


--- David and Dianne on Comcast <dhhdeh at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:22:20 -0500
> From: David and Dianne on Comcast
> <dhhdeh at comcast.net>
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] K3: Interim Build Report
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> As I posted here at mid week, K3 #371 arrived from
> Aptos in fine shape. 
> I have begun the build and thought I would share
> some comments both 
> positive and negative with all. You opinions of
> course will most likely 
> be different but here are mine so far:
> 
> Positive:
> The kit was packaged magnificently. The care in
> packaging is first rate. 
> The manual is by far one of the most comprehensive I
> have seen in 
> building many kits over the years. Clear, concise
> and detailed but very 
> logical and easy to follow. Build quality of the
> boards is indeed 
> elegant.  Fit and finish is simply excellent.
> Tolerances are amazing.  
> It is a work of engineering art. Congrats to Eric
> and Wayne of all of 
> this. They should be proud of their baby.
> 
> Negative:
> Yup I have a negative.  Of all of the kits I have
> built over the years, 
> many of them fairly complex, from Heath, LDG, W9GR
> and many others, this 
> is the first to arrive short parts/hardware.  And
> while the shortage is 
> minor, it is specialized and significant enough to
> stop me cold in the 
> build process and add yet another week to the final
> K3 experience.  
> Simply put, it has been deflating. Yet more delay.
> While Elecraft was 
> attentive to this matter over the phone and in a
> response from 
> K3Support, I am still not sure if the parts are
> headed this way as no 
> confirmation has been positively received. This will
> be my last kit 
> experience. I should have bought it factory
> assembled as I planned 
> originally. But I bought into the kit mystique.
> Never again.
> 
> Concerns:
> I am both a CW and SSB operator as non-contesting
> DX'er. SSB TX issues 
> are important to me. Several reports are surfacing
> here and elsewhere 
> from very reputable sources about the current lack
> of SSB bandwidth and 
> the lack of more "powerful" modulation. I urge
> Elecraft to address these 
> issues ASAP (now perhaps with more priority than the
> second receiver.)  
> This will be a deal breaker for me if not rectified.
> IMO it should have 
> been correct out of the box. This K3 will be
> evaluated against my highly 
> modified Ten Tec Omni V.9 which has for my operating
> requirements beat 
> out every transceiver on both CW and SSB since its
> arrival here at this 
> QTH, bar none, including my Pro III which for all
> its true Rx warts is a 
> pretty darn good value for the $$.
> 
> I paid my $$ and took my chances and hope that this
> will all get 
> rectified in the end. And for those of you who may
> think that I should 
> not air complaints in public, I ask, did yours
> arrive complete?
> 
> My $.02
> 
> 73 de N1LQ-Dave
> 
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