[Elecraft] Unhappy with your KX3

[FredJensen]

On 8/5/2012 4:38 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> A contrast with other manufacturers is appropriate. Yaesu's flagship 
> radio, the FT1000 series in all its variations, is notorious for 
> REALLY BAD keyclicks, and three of the four DSP mic processing 
> settings can best be described as awful. It took them ten years and 
> three model changes to fix the clicks, and you had to BUY the 
> replacement (a new radio) that fixed the problem

> The original Ten Tec Orion was beset with LONG ongoing firmware 
> issues, and you wouldn't believe the bitching on the Ten Tec email 
> reflector about the new bugs in the bug-fixed firmware. The eventual 
> solution was the Orion II. Again, you had to BUY a new radio, and 
> again, no discount.
Yep!  Were I a marketing major in college and thus a marketing guru now, 
I would reply, "Good Show!  One working good radio for the price of 
three.  Way to go!"

Fred K6DGW/7
Sparks NV