[Elecraft] K3 RX Audio

[Bill]

I am mostly a rag chewer and enjoy "armchair copy" audio. To that end, I 
found the K3 was sadly lacking in good receive audio. Too much hiss and 
too tinny sounding. In a word, "tiring" to listen to for long periods of 
time.

I thought about giving up and going back to my trusty TS480 with its 
inherent excellent audio. However, as good as the 480 is, when the chips 
are down for lousy conditions, the K3 shines. It is so flexible in 
operation.

Therein lies the K3's strengths - flexible.

I spend a long time trying many different settings with the K3 (learning 
a lot about the K3's operations along the way), I eventually found some 
settings of the K3's menus that do the job for me. My settings can be 
found at:

http://www.w2blc.net/K3.htm

However, note these are my settings, and you may not like them. They are 
meant for the 75 and 40 meter rag chewer - not the typical DX or contest 
settings.  Your enjoyment may vary.

I had a long-term power outage here the other day and had to resort to 
using the 480 (which had been gathering dust for several months). It 
works very well and does the job well for me - however - (yes, however) 
it just doesn't do as well as the K3 when it comes to summer static and 
adjacent channel interference. It doesn't have a P3 either.

This got a little longer than I intended, but the K3 is the best rig I 
have ever used - and I have been using for over well fifty years.

Bill W2BLC