R: R: [Elecraft] K3-Latest K3 Review on EHAM

[paolo.gramigna]

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You have a LOT of company Paolo! 
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I'm glad I'm not alone. I say, for casual ragchewing nothing beats my old
and trusty Drake C-line.
But for the purpose of adding a rare, new one when I have just half an hour
before hurrying to business, well it's nice to fire up my PC, click and grab
a spot, click on it and let MixW operate my rig. I touch a button, and my
callsign goes out at 25. Another button, and "599 t u" goes out at horrible
speed. A click of the mouse, and the QSO is in the log, complete with all
the QRZ.COM details.
But when VP6DX is S5 on my R-4C while DXManager says it should be arriving
at S2, then I switch off my PC and the QSO comes out from my bug, or my
Amplidan. 
The only microphone I own is indeed an astatic, how did you guess?
But when my K3 will arrive, (in a week, I hope) and that very special
occasion will arise when I'll need more power (the receiving station being
buried in QRM, for example) then my only linear will come to life: a trusty
Drake L-4B. And I'll have to tune up 3 knobs in the linear, 3 more in the
Transmatch (a Drake MN-2000), taking care not to overload by carefully
watching the Trapezoid on my Heathkit Station Monitor CRT... Oh boy, that's
life! The smell of the two 3-500Z frying up dust and moths, the humming of
the heavy transformers, all the lights in the house dimming in unison with
the CW of my callsign, myself yelling "stop the washer!" and my wife
scrambling to stop the dish-washer before the house breaker overloads and
trips... That's LIFE! No PC will ever be able to cause such an explosion of
Adrenaline, believe me!

Cheers,
IK4YNG Paolo