[Elecraft] Elecraft newbie considering K3 vs KX3

[Matt Maguire]

On 18/10/2012, at 1:06 AM, Ignacy <no9e at arrl.net> wrote:

> I own both K3 and KX3.
> 
> K3 is mature radio. Works very well. But the design is a few years old. 
> 
> KX3 is new radio with new design.
> ...
> The contest programs
> cannot easily send CW without extra hardware (with exceptions).

I actually used N1MM with the KX3 in the Oceania DX CW contest last weekend (and in the 
Oceania DX SSB contest the weekend before). It was the first time I had used a contesting program to generate CW, and I discovered that N1MM is a powerful program. To get it to work with the KX3, all that was required was a trivial circuit with just a single transistor and single resistor, which is pretty easy. In the end I'll probably get a Winkeyer or similar, but the simple transistor interface was a quick and easy way to get on the air and give automated CW contesting a go. 

73, Matt VK2ACL