[Elecraft] Re: K4: serious challenge for the $10K toys

[WILLIS COOKE]

Wayne, for those who complain that the K3 is not heavy enough I suggest that you sell a battery box to attach to the bottom with a 100 amp hour gel cell.  That should make it heavy enough to give anyone a hernia.

Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ. K3 #1025 with separate emergency battery.


--- On Sat, 1/3/09, wayne burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:

> From: wayne burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
> Subject: [Elecraft] Re: K4: serious challenge for the $10K toys
> To: "DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL" <dougzzz at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 6:10 AM
> DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
> 
> > Somehow, competing "head to head" with a
> "big" radio doesn't seem to 
> > fit the "Eric/Wayne" approach.
> 
> It does now :)  We (and the K3) are in it for the long
> haul, and we 
> don't think of it as a niche radio.
> 
> There are no plans for a K4. We'll continue to refine
> the K3 as a 
> system, internally and externally -- hence the highly
> modular design. 
> As with the K2, no K3 will ever be obsolete.
> 
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
> 
> 
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