[Elecraft] [HAM] OT: DZKIT Sienna?

[Julian, G4ILO]

David Gilbert wrote:
> 
> I'm honestly curious.  What bullseye is that?  What features or 
> performance does it offer that other rigs don't provide more cheaply?  I 
> looked over the specs carefully and I simply didn't find it.  The 
> colorful panel??
> 

I've never considered cost vs spec to be a particularly important issue when
choosing a radio. The same could (and indeed was) said of the K2 when that
first came out.

The niche that the Sienna occupies is that it is a desktop HF radio that you
can build yourself. The K2 is its only remote competitor and that is small,
and as we all know from discussions about the K3 a lot of people like their
desktop radios to be big. The K3 doesn't satisfy kit builders because it is
assembled from ready made and tested boards you can't build it yourself.

Many people who like to build stuff aren't remotely interested in winning
contests or working weak DX. So the fact that the Sienna's RF performance is
not as good as that of the K3 is unimportant to the people I think it's
aimed at. I think (and hope) that there is enough of a market for products
like the Sienna to exist. Were I not now so long-sighted that any
construction involves bending over the desk with a magnifier headset with an
inevitable painful result on my back, I'd be tempted to order one myself.

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Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392  K3 #222.
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