[Elecraft] K3 & Competition

[lstavenhagen]

Well yeah that's kind of my point. The competition lost my business because
of the gadgeteering rather than offering good basic performance. If Kenwood
still made the 530 and 830, I'd probably have bought one by now (I used to
have a 530S, it was lovely and I never should have sold it). 

Otherwise, it's all just too many big screens with overly complicated,
fragile, crashing and buggy software and not enough basic performance and
value. I havn't been able to pull the trigger on a rig since I bought my
706MKIIG back in college because I just havn't been able to find an
acceptable bang/buck in an HF rig since then. I've long since become
inactive as a result (my ticket had even expired but was fortunately still
within the grace period when I sent my renewal into FCC last year, whew!). 

That is, until I discovered elecraft. I just buttoned up the cover on my K2
a couple days ago and am already absolutely amazed with its wonderful RX and
CW performance. Couldn't care less that it doesn't have a band scope - I can
hear weak sigs down in the noise even while that s9+20 lid is calling CQ on
top of them 1 or 2 kc's away and can hear them. Just hit XFIL and he's out
of the picture hi hi.

So that's how elecraft got me as a convert. At some point, you need a rig
that works for what you want to do with it. For me, that's already my K2. I
thought long and hard about a K3 as well, but it's a little out of my budget
for now. Plus, I could build my K2, which I really wanted to do too.

LS
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