[Elecraft] How long until K3 is declared the greatest rig of all time?

[Fred Jensen]

> Darwin, Keith wrote:

>> How long do you think we have to wait before folks begin speaking of 
>> the K3 as one of the most influential rigs?
>>  
>> And what rigs would you say are the most historically influential?  
>> Which ones caused a major shift in the history of amateur radio?
>>  

I would unequivocally vote for the KWM-2.  In addition to incredible 
stability, frequency setting repeatability, great audio, and all it's 
other features and capabilities, it ushered in the era of transceivers. 
  SSB was fairly hard with separate TX and RX, until the "one-box radio" 
automatically assured that you transmitted where you were receiving. 
The result was a massive, wholesale change to how ham radio worked on 
the air.

I love my K3, and its performance and features will run circles around a 
KWM-2, and I wouldn't be surprised if it sets the performance bar for a 
long time to come.  But it still is a transceiver.  For causing "a major 
shift in the history of amateur radio," Art Collins gets the Nobel in my 
book.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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