[Elecraft] New: K3 tops the list

[S Sacco]

Paul -

Actually, Wayne and Eric care quite a bit, as evidenced by their
wanting the rig to be sent to them for checkout *AFTER* being told it
was going to Rob for review.

Also, recall that very nice Bavarian Contest Club review (
http://www.bavarian-contest-club.de/projects/K3_english.pdf ) wherein
they mention "Wayne, N6KR and chief designer of the K3, knew that we
were working on this report, and asked me to give him a chance to see
the report at an early stage, so that he could point out errors, fix
anything which might be broken and make comments"

Lastly, I seem to recall something about Elecraft wanting the ARRL to
measure a pre-production K3, to compare the League's measurements
versus Elecraft's.  (Am I making that up?  It sure *seems* familiar.)

It's not unreasonable for them to care, and I don't especially believe
that they did anything above and beyond the published alignment
procedure to especially enhance the performance...but we'll all feel
more comfortable after we see a broader sampling of measurements from
unrelated sources.

How's that expression go?  "Trust, but verify"

Also not too many days away from my K3 being shipped...

Steve NN4X







On 2/19/08, Paul Christensen <w9ac at arrl.net> wrote:
> > No "review" will be representative of all K3s.
>
> I think Dave's line above says it all.  No one review will ever capture the
> true performance of all transceivers.  This is a significant "hang-up" area
> with many operators.  Often, we'll read a QST or RadCom product review and
> make the quantum-leap assumption that one parameter will remain the same
> across an entire production run of transceivers.  TX IMD specs come to mind
> here.  For example, depending on a bias setting, the real IMD performance
> can very substantially with most SSB transceivers.
>
> If Elecraft's final alignment procedure is identical to that used by the
> casual end-user, does it matter whether or not the unit has been to Elecraft
> or Sherwood?  I think the whole point of Elecraft's design team was to take
> the influential alignment variable out of the equation.  I suspect if Wayne
> & Eric were even the least bit concerned in this area that the kit version
> would not have been offered.  Or, in the alternative, all kits would go back
> to Elecraft for final alignment.
>
> Paul, W9AC (K3 just days away from shipment)
>
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