[Elecraft] Fwd: David Cole...756ProIII vs K3

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From: Sfbonk <sfbonk at aol.com>
To: dave <dave at nk7z.net>; elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.ne>
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] David Cole...756ProIII vs K3


Something I did when I got the K3 and still had a 756. I liked the bandscope on the 756 and I knew the P3 was coming out, so I went with the K3. I ran the IF out from the K3 into the receive antenna input of the 756 and tuned it to the K3 IF frequency - had a K3 bandscope before the P3 was out! Once I was up and running with a P3, got rid of the 756.

73 de W3OU Steve

 

 

 

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From: David Cole <dave at nk7z.net>
To: elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Apr 13, 2014 8:25 am
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] David Cole...756ProIII vs K3


Hi,

Thanks for that input, I still have the Pro 3, and will probably sell
it, if the performance is worse than teh K3.  I will be able to A/B the
two rigs for about a week prior to station replacement.
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On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 23:29 -0500, Tom Fitzgerald wrote:
> > "Can anyone point me at some resources to better understand why I want a
> > K3, as opposed to keeping my Icom 756 Pro III?"
> 
> My advice...keep the ProIII & buy a K3 too...that's what I did. When the K3 
first came out, there was a waiting list to get one. I'm not one to wait on much 
of anything I want to buy and so I bought a ProIII instead. I love my ProIII and 
decided it was probably the smart move reasoning that the K3 would likely have 
several (or more) "issues" & changes as time went by. The ProIII was fairly well 
refined by that point in time & it turned out that I was correct about the K3. I 
may get some static for this but I think both radios are pretty close in 
performance...at least as judged by my "human" ear. I filled all the slots in 
the K3 with the various 8 pole Inrad filters too. I like both radios just fine 
and would have very much regretted selling my ProIII. My K3 is a mid 3K serial 
number which I spent about $3K on and that was well before the price increases. 
The ProIII has been discontinued (obviously) by Icom now but...back in the 
day...I think you got more bang for your buck
  w
>  ith the Icom. Again, my 2cents...don't sell it, you WILL regret it. Sorry 
about the SUPER late reply to your original post...I get so much "stuff" in my 
inbox that it's taken me this long to catch up! 
> 
> Tom, KD0BCF
> 
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