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

[Dave Yarnes]

Cookie, you have a point!  The thing that frustrates me perhaps the most 
about my Orion II is its size.  It's huge!  It doesn't fit well on my 
operating desk (every other rig I own does fit), and it's just plain murder 
to position it efficiently from an operating standpoint.  Ten-Tec could have 
made it much smaller (not as deep) without sacrificing any of the front 
panel space.

My K3, on the other hand, fits just about anywhere.  I even think the 
ergonomics are better, not worse.  An Orion II has about 1350+ cubic inches 
of volume.  The K3 has just over 400 cubic inches.  So, theoretically you 
can fit three K3's into an Orion.  I'm not sure what Ten-Tec was thinking of 
when they designed the Orion package, but obviously convenience wasn't on 
their mind.

Dave W7AQK


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WILLIS COOKE" <wrcooke at flash.net>
To: "DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL" <dougzzz at gmail.com>; "wayne burdick" 
<n6kr at elecraft.com>
Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re: K4: serious challenge for the $10K toys


> 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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>>
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