[Elecraft] K3 how often do you use it?

[Lu Romero]

Let me be the first to congratulate "a fellow" on his choice
of competitive hardware!  

Damn, what sage advice!

Yes, a wise choice! Please, all you PVRC, YCCC and FRC
members! Dont *EVEN* consider an Elecraft K3 for your
contesting use and stay with your FT1000'ds, your Pro-2's,
your TS940's and your superlative IC-781's for competing
with your poor southern cousins in FCG, especially during
ARRL 10 Meters, SS and WPX.

For that matter, I strongly urge that *ALL* PVRC, YCCC and
FRC members switch *IMMEDIATELY* to the above rigs and sell
ALL of their K3 rigs to either DX stations or to NCCC or Mad
River members (maybe *THEN* they will then be able to hear
us from Florida).  

We might even allow you an additional couple of hundred
dollars above a used price to help you get rid of those K3's
as a "hardship" stipend so you can get those above mentioned
"high performance" rigs to work the WPX piles with.

Im sure my fellow FGC members would be happy to help take
those badly performing, hard to operate silly looking
Elecraft rigs off your hands immediately...  Its the least
we can do for you!  Southern Hospitality *REQUIRES* us to be
this nice to you!

Then, take the money and go out and buy some TS-570's with
the stock SSB filter and use them on CW in the next IARU,
Please????

Lu - W4LT
Spotting you additional "difficulty factors" in contests
operating K3 #3192
Go FGC! - OJ's!


Message: 32
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:23:00 -0500
From: Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger at bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 how often do you use it?
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Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
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Add PVRC to that list.  Even some of our mumble-grump
skeptics went to
K3's because they got their **s handed to them in a sling on
the low
bands when the competition started using K3 true diversity.

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:41 PM,  <ynkedragon at aol.com>
wrote:
> If FRC, YCCC and FCG members, are not among the Big Guns
in the US contest
scene, would "A fellow" please tell us who is?
>
> 73, K3YD