[Elecraft] K3: Yaesu copies K3's design

[Hector Padron]

Just about time japaneese companies wake up and take the K3 architecture,its the only way to improve the receiver performance.
Aparently Icom is coming also with something similar on his new IC-9100 with optional roofing filters of 6 and 3 Khz.
Good,soon we'll have their competition,we'll see how good they are when they be tested by Sherwood/ARRL labs.
 
AD4C
 


"For a refined ham it is compulsory to own a k3"

--- On Mon, 11/23/09, juergen piezo <plebian99 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: juergen piezo <plebian99 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Elecraft] K3: Yaesu copies K3's design
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 7:22 AM


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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