[Elecraft] [QRP-L] The Chinese KX3

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

The Chinese have already made good inroads with the Wouxun handy 
talkies.  100 dollars for a full featured dual band hand held is hard to 
beat.  I have one and it is built very well.  I have suspected that many 
of the Japanese radios were being built in China or Taiwan.

Mike W0MU

W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net


On 4/13/2012 10:38 AM, Lu Romero wrote:
> > From the looks of this rig, it seems to be from the same
> source as the Chinese KX1 "competitor" that is now also
> being sold and imported by TenTec.
>
> Look for more Chinese sourced HF gear in the future as their
> ham population ramps up.  I was in Singapore in 2010 and saw
> a Chinese made rig at one of the backwater stores there that
> was a twin brother to the Yaesu FT450 at the Singapore
> Electronics "Tower" downtown.  A dead ringer except for the
> color of the cabinet (gray instead of black), the knobs and
> the display layout.
>
> Loved the cardboard box it came in, too!  Had that Far
> Eastern cardboard feel to it :).  They wanted $875 USD for
> it. The panel labels were in English, but in that serif font
> that Far East people are so fond of.  I didnt have a camera
> with me (my phone didnt have a camera in those days), would
> have loved to have a photo of it.
>
> The store looked like one of those droid stores you see in
> the Mos Eisley spaceport on  Tatooine from Star Wars,
> complete with a pot of some kind of exotic smelling soup
> simmering behind the counter in the back.
>
> -lu-w4lt-
> K3-P3-K1
> Using the AL-K-Line
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:50:15 +0100
> From: Thomas Horsten<thomas at horsten.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [QRP-L] The Chinese KX3
> To: James Rodenkirch<rodenkirch_llc at msn.com>
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> The only way they will come anywhere close to the KX3
> performance is by
> pirating large portions of the KX3 hardware design and
> firmware. If that's
> the case I hope they don't succeed.
>
> Besides, if they try to add all the same kinds of features
> that the KX3 has
> it will probably be full of bugs and I am sure you won't get
> the same kind
> of support that you do from Elecraft, where the developers
> actually listen
> to the users. At best, it will be a pale imitation of the
> real thing and at
> worst it will be an epic nightmare of bugs and trying to
> deal with sporadic
> support announcements in Chinese with Google Translate as
> your only friend
> when trying to figure out what's going on.
>
> But to be honest, looks like a spoof to me. A well made
> spoof, but still a
> spoof.
>
> 73, Thomas M0TRN
>
>
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