[Elecraft] K3 - Ergonomics

[Wes (N7WS)]

Nothing that follows has anything to do with ergonomics, which is the topic of 
this thread, but at my advanced age I no longer suffer fools gladly.  I will 
answer other comments in another post but yours deserve special attention.

My K3 is S/N 2059, what's yours?

Mine would be even older but I wasn't about to order something that would be 
delivered a year later, so I waited until delivery time was a week or so.

If _your_ radio has the microphonic killing VCO stiffener, it's because _my_ 
radio spent two months back at Elecraft as a guinea pig for the development of 
the stiffener. This was after I demonstrated the modulation of the VCO by the 
internal speaker, in my radio and his, to an Elecraft engineer in my shack.

I also showed him the differences between my radio and his when the rf-gain was 
adjusted.  Every radio is different in this regard until the "RF Gain 
Calibration" is performed.  I spent hours beta testing this software so your 
radio will perform better.

A question for you: Do you prefer "grape" Kool-Aid?

Wes  N7WS

On 4/3/2014 6:05 AM, Kevin Stover wrote:
> Sour grapes from guys who can't believe the K3 is the equal of or better than 
> their rig which they spent too much on (5 digits, anybody still have their 
> FTDX-9000's) to get the 100+ pretty lights and useless, mostly unused buttons.
>
> They can't knock the rig on it's performance, 7 years later, so they bring up 
> "ergonomics".
>
> One word describes that...Weak.
>
> On 4/3/2014 5:19 AM, Bill W2BLC wrote:
>> In a post speaking to the Sherwood chart, it was said, "........too many 
>> people jump on one number to rate (rank) equipment and totally disregard 
>> things like ergonomics (If they didn't the K3 would be at the bottom of the 
>> list)."
>
>