[Elecraft] K3: Yaesu copies K3's design

[Philippe Trottet]

Hi,
It makes me remember when Honda came to Motorbike competition in the sixties with a copy of British engine design, but with better steels... and win the Championship.
Certainly Yaesu engineers bought K3's and worked on it but I do not think they can compete with the Elecraft prices.
Considering the size of the Yaesu company, they have huge sunk costs and payroll...unless they will open factories in China, taking the risk to destroy their image.
73's
Philippe A65BI  (F5LTB)
K3#3616
 
 

>>> juergen piezo <plebian99 at yahoo.com> 23-11-2009 11:22 >>>
Hi 

It looks like Yaesus new  FT5000 has copied the  K3's architecture

The K3 will be getting a serious  run for its money in the next few months. Yaesu looks like it has  done some serious competition analysis.

Features...

9 mhz IF
Not up conversion
Narrow roofing filters
99 db 3rd dynamic range +25dbm 3rd order intercept point @ 1khz
200 watts, 75 Class A
300 hz roofing filter.
MP and FT5KD version 
Bandscope and many other features

It looks like Yaesu have taken the K3's performance ideals and put it 
into a bigger box. The brochure is on the yahoo groups web page for those interested.

This radio is going to be very popular because it seems that a lot of the criticism of the K3's  apparent failings  seem to have been corrected in the new Yaesu FT5K design

All very interesting
...

John



      
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