[Elecraft] K3 needs survey -- firmware and application software

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Good thing that reflector not the prime sales media.  I would assign
that to word of mouth and Elecraft repeat customers.  You got one
contester telling another that he hears things with his K3 that never
heard (or never heard well enough to copy) before, and it gets around
that a multi/op owner listened to one of them in a contest elsewhere
and then bought eight of 'em for himself, you pretty much don't care
what's in an ad or posted in a reflector.

Word of mouth and repeat customers are a businessman's best friend.
Why a "good name" means so much and is a commercial tangible asset.

The FT1000MP heavily penetrated the contesting market a decade ago.
The K3 has done at least that well.

73, Guy.

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Grant Youngman <nq5t at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I have to admit that reading these posts has been interesting, if not down right exhausting.
> An idle perspective K3 purchaser would have to believe that the receiver can't hear anything because it's noisy, that there's something seriously wrong with AGC, that the S-meter doesn't work right, that it's basically impossible to use effectively, that the radio doesn't meet all high precision test equipment needs in the radio room, and that the radio clearly has a wide range of miscellaneous "faults" that just scream to be fixed NOW or else various users will trash it in favor of something else, which will be clearly faultless  :-)