[Elecraft] Portable Fit: K3 versus K2

[eric manning]

Yes, the K3 is light and rugged. On the other hand, it doesn't run on a 
built-in battery.

I did a "light-weight" one-person DXpedition to  Bangladesh.  Mains 
power on St Martin's Island [on the Bay of Bengal]
was a generator which ran only a few hours per day. So, the built-in 
battery of the K2 allowed me to operate
long hours, and recharge from the generator while I was asleep.

The entire rig including battery chargers, key and mike
fir nicely into a small hardshell case the size of a laptop bag - cabin 
baggage - and the Sigma 5 centre-fed vertical [which worked fb  on the beach
near the salt water] went into a sports bag which went as  checked 
baggage. I used an early Sony palmtop [netbook-like] for logging.

eric VA7DZ
K3 3620
K2 XXX

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