[Elecraft] Son of K3??

[lstavenhagen]

Don't forget tho that the K3 has the option for you to build it yourself.
Then you know how it goes together and you save $250 over the fully built
version in the process.

Then there's the fact that the Kenwood is a catchup radio that's not even
finished yet, and once it goes into to production there's going to be the
usual feast of version One Point Oh bugs. And who knows if/when those will
ever get fixed... and by then the K3 will just be even further ahead,
etc......

Before I became a dedicated elecrafter my favorite Kenwood rigs were the TS
5/830 and the 930. Those were the last good rigs I think Kenwood made. I
couldn't pull the trigger on any of them after that due to having to pay for
more creeping featurism rather than good basic performance. if they still
sold the 830 new, tho, I'd whip out the credit card right now to get one.

The higher end rigs from the big 3 are even more ridiculous, where you have
to take out a bank loan to buy something with an RX that hardly performs as
well as my K2, much less the K3. Rigs like the Icom 7700 and 7800 are just
tragedies.. tho somehow Icom manages to sell a bunch of them. How? I dunno -
more money than brains I guess hi hi.

So at least for me, elecraft got it exactly spot-on in terms of my needs.
The only criticism I can give have to do with ergonomics but those are
pretty low priority items to me...... The bang/buck ratio of elecraft is the
highest in the industry that I've been able to find.

73,
LS
W5QD
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