[Elecraft] Status of the K2 world

[Doug Person]

  I'm on my third K2.  On the previous two I felt I had drifted away 
from radio and I sold them to reinvest the money into other things. On 
my third, last year, I realized that if I do radio at all the only ones 
to use were the K3 and the K2.  I'll let everything else radio related 
go, but these two are just keepers. Right now the K2 is sitting in the 
living room connected to a Buddipole on the deck.  Running 15 watts on 20.

To me, the K2 will be both historic and a classic. 20 years from now, 
people will be looking back at the end of the last century at the K2 
about the same way many of us who are older and licensed in the early 
60's look upon the Drake TR-4c.  I can't think of any transceiver that 
was more popular or more desired by my ham radio peers than the TR-4c.  
I can only hope that it is still in production. Or possibly and 
hopefully moved on to the K2-A or K2-B.  The concept of the radio is 
unmatched anywhere else - a tiny, lightweight radio with performance 
comparable to vastly more expensive products - and you build it yourself 
from a kit. How cool is that?

Doug KØDXV

On 8/1/2010 9:53 AM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>>     I've been away from radio for about 3 years. Am thinking of building
>> another K2, but am wondering if the K2 will be discontinued due to the
>> popularity of the K3.
> As long as the K2 continues to sell, and the parts for it are available,
> Elecraft won't have any reason to discontinue it (unless they create
> something like a K2 Mark II to replace it).
>
> I haven't priced the K2 and K3 recently but based on the last time I
> checked it out, a K2 with 100 watt output is about half the price of what
> it would cost (about $4000) to get a K3 with the features I would want. If
> I wanted all the K3 options the price goes up even more. I'm not active
> enough, or have enough disposable cash, to justify spending that kind of
> money on a K3 so I'm perfectly happy to keep my K2.
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