[Elecraft] Band stacking UI rant (was: K3 Band changing...Devils Advocate...)

[WILLIS COOKE]

Fred, my comment was directed at the frequency
changing method only.  Of course I hope for better
performance from the K3.  I have waited for 18 years
until I was convinced that there was a better than
TS-850 receiver available to replace my TS-850, but I
am still having a hard time believing that it will be
that much better and really eager to find out.

My closest QRO neighbor is about 3 blocks away, but he
is not too active.  We were both in a 160 DX plieup
and I didn't know he was there until I looked for the
DX listening freq and he pegged my S meter, the the
TS-850 is pretty good.  The scuttlebutt has it that
the K3 is much better and I am ready for much better!

Cookie, K5EWJ

--- Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> WILLIS COOKE wrote:
> 
> > I hope that
> > my K3 that will arrive in a week or so works very
> much
> > like the TS-850, preferably exactly like the
> TS-850.
> > 
> 
> Exactly?  Actually, you don't :-)  My beloved TS-850
> is currently on the 
> floor beside the desk awaiting adoption by a friend.
>  Band changing on 
> the K3 is pretty much the same ... band up/band down
> buttons, and direct 
> frequency entry [the legends on the keys are a tad
> different, but it 
> works the same], or from the logging computer. 
> There, however, is where 
> the similarity ends, and you will be amazed and
> happy that it does.
> 
> I have KF6T about 2.7 km from me.  I have taken up
> contesting and I'm 
> learning.  Jack is an avid contester who keeps the
> power company happy 
> with his linear.  On my 850, I could hear his keying
> anywhere in the 
> band from the internal IMD generated in the front
> end.  With my K2, I 
> can get within a few KHz before I begin to hear his
> keying products.  On 
> my K3 in the recent CW WPX, I worked S50A 0.900 KHz
> from him.
> 
> Good luck, go slow with the assembly, you are going
> to be really happy.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party  4-5 Oct 08
> - www.cqp.org
> 


Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ