[Elecraft] Band stacking UI rant

[Stewart Baker]

I have a TS850, K2 & K3 and I'm keeping all of them...

73
Stewart G3RXQ
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:13:14 -0700, David Yarnes wrote:
> Cookie,
>
> I'm only passingly familiar with the TS850.  But I have a very 
good friend
> whose opinion I respect greatly.  He has owned an 850 for years, 
and
> considers it to be superior in many ways to lots of newer rigs. 
 He does,
> however, have a K2 (and a K1), and considers the K2 to be 
superior on
> receive to his 850.  I am pretty sure he also has his eye on a 
K3, and will
> probably order one when the dust settles.  He has told me more 
than once
> that he probably would have gotten rid of the 850 long ago if he 
had just
> seen something newer that really seemed justifiably better.  For 
him the K2
> is more of a field radio and/or QRP contest radio, but the K3 
may dislodge
> his 850 ultimately.  So, you aren't the only one who holds the 
850 in high
> regard.  It seems pretty certain that it is one of the 
"classics" that
> doesn't surrender easily.  I suspect you haven't seen much come 
along either
> that made you consider replacing your 850, but the K3 will 
probably succeed
> in doing that.  I probably should have paid more attention to 
the 850 myself
> when it came along originally, but I was pretty happy with 
Ten-Tec stuff
> back then.  I even have an Orion II now, but it doesn't get very 
much use
> due to the K3.  Anyway, prepare yourself to be in "hog heaven" 
with the K3!
>
> Dave W7AQK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "WILLIS COOKE" <wrcooke at flash.net>
> To: <k6dgw at foothill.net> "Elecraft Reflector" 
<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Band stacking UI rant
>
>
> Fred, your post is good news to me.  You make the K3
> sound like what I want it to be.  I don't have a 250
> Hz filter in my 850, just the 500 Hz, so I don't have
> the ringing problem but a better noise blanker would
> be welcome and a little less band noise will be
> welcome.  I hardly dare to expect the near absence of
> band noise that I see claimed, but I will welcome any
> improvement.  I didn't realize just how good the
> receiver in the 850 is until I tried to use a Yaesu
> FT-900 in the ARRL 10 meter contest.  It had so much
> intermod and other trash that I had to give up after
> about 10 minutes and hook up the 850.  I can't say
> that there was none on the 850, but much better.  If
> the K3 improves on that I will be in hog heaven!
>
> Cookie
>
>
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