[Elecraft] Reason to NOT buy a K3?

[Chuck Guenther]

Gary,
You may wish to substitute a 500 Hz or 200 Hz five-pole filter for either
the 400 Hz or 250 Hz filters.  The reason is, the nominal 400 Hz and
250 Hz filters are actually pretty close in terms of performance.

I own all of the aforementioned filters, and have gone back and forth
a few times, but have settled on the 500, 250, and 200 Hz combo for CW,
while I have the 2.7 KHz and 2.1 Khz installed for SSB.

I operate lowbands and CW almost exclusively now.  Probably 90 pct.
of the time I use the 250 Hz 8-pole filter.

BTW, I think you will be delighted by the QSK performance, as well as the
APF feature of the K3.

73,
Chuck  Guenther  NI0C
K2, K3/P3


Gary, K9GS, wrote:
> "I primarily spend my time contesting, DX contests in particular, and
> most of my time on 80 and 40M.  99% of the time I operate CW.  So, in
> particular, low band CW performance is important to me. .......
>
>
> I'm looking at the 100W model with the following accessories:
>
> a)  KAT3
> b) KXV3A
> c) 2.8K 8 pole SSB filter
> d) 400 hz 8 pole filter
> e) 250 hz 8 pole filter"
>