[Elecraft] [K3] SWR

[Al Lorona]

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...Does part of the K3 spec mention that it's supposed to be a precision 
swr indicator?...  

73, Dunc, W5DC
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I am shocked and dismayed that the SWR indicator in the K3 does not, after all, rival an external, laboratory-grade instrument. This is a tremendously disturbing disappointment for me.

In this state of dejection and disillusionment, and hoping to assuage my sorrow, I set out to verify some of the other controls on the K3 that I had assumed would be absolutely accurate.

To my horror, I must now report -- with extreme reluctance-- that the CW speed control under-reports the CW speed by 2 WPM! How can this be? Wayne, I demand an immediate explanation. 

That was bad enough, but that's not all. To add seeming insult to injury, I have now found that when my CW pitch is set to 600 Hz the actual measured pitch is closer to 608 Hz. Instead of a D, it's more like an E-flat. Certainly, none of us is going to stand for that.

If these two conditions are not corrected in the next release I'm going back to my Kensucom MarkTwoDoublePlusGee.

I really thought that the K3 was a perfect rig in a perfect world, but I am utterly crushed to find that it is a merely great one in an imperfect world. Darn.

W6LX said that.