[Elecraft] K3, two things.

[Jerry Flanders]

At 08:20 AM 11/9/2008, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
>... My K3's tuning knob has already lost all the paint from the 
>finger hole, I dont have sharp nails and I dont tune around with it 
>much, but the paints almost gone and it looks real used :(
>...

The knob is a disappointment here too, Keith. IIRC, every ICOM 706 
model (and the 7000 as well) had a finger hole with bearings so it 
didn't wear your fingertip down. I wonder if the shaft size is the 
same - maybe ICOM knobs will fit the K3.

BTW, I tune my K3 almost exclusively with WU2X/N8LP PowrSDR/LP-Bridge 
now, so I don't use the knob much. Once I discovered click-tuning 
with a softrock receiver and PowerSDR a couple years ago, I preferred it.

Jerry W4UK