[Elecraft] Unhappy With Your KX3?

[PTA_ABD]

I may have missed reading it, but I'd like to comment about being unhappy with a rig. Because of the nature of todays' rigs, it's pretty easy for the user ... I repeat ... the user to set bit up so that it sounds like a piece of junk. I recall a fellow who was so unhappy with his K3, he sold it off and went back to ICOM. I got a chance to see that rig ... AGC numbers all over the place, RX EQ maxed out for the highest frequencies ... sure did sound like crap. It doesn't anymore. BTW, the ICOM is now gone too...

Am I 100 per cent happy?  No. I don't have the tactile functions to disassemble the paddle, file contacts or cut and set springs. Shouldn't have had to given the price of that option. No line-in/line-out setup like the K3. But the most galling of all, for a mobile op, is waiting for the companion amplifier .... but understand this ... I'm not shopping for a substitution ... I know what I want.

Outside of that, I find the KX3 most enjoyable, even in a contest situation. It doesn't play like a second-stringer.

Paul WB2ABD
K3 129
KX3 149