[Elecraft] Buying a new K3/100 kit - Top 3 options?

[Bill Frantz]

Others have given you good advice. The important thing to 
remember is that options can always be added later. In that 
sense, the K3 is a Barbie Doll. Or at least that's what I tell 
my XYL. :-)

I have found a narrow filter -- mine is the 250Hz -- can help 
isolate a single PSK station, but is only rarely better than the 
filter built into the standard DSP. It can also help in a RTTY contest.

I got the 2M internal transverter which I use for FM simplex and 
repeaters. With 20-20 hind sight, I should have just gotten a 
Icom/Kenwood/Yaesu radio, which would have given me 70cm. 
However I'm set for 2M DX when the urge strikes. And with the 
13KHz filter I worked that AM station on 15M to be able to say I 
had worked AM.

I only recently added the 100 watt option and am now interested 
in the tuner.

I have a P3 and consider it to be the most valuable option on 
the radio. The second receiver would be nice, but the P3 usually 
lets me see where there is space in a pileup. I can spot an 
active DX station on the waterfall by looking at the changes in 
signal strength. If the station is working split, I can usually 
find the DX by looking down-band from the pileup.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 2/20/14 at 12:25 PM, arlenfletcher at mac.com (Arlen Fletcher) wrote:

>I'm about to pull the trigger on a K3/100 purchase (once the 
>IRS returns the interest-free loan I provided to them in 2013). 
>There are a LOT of options listed for the K3 on the Elecraft 
>site, and I'm a total newbie, so I'm appealing for help from 
>current K3 owners. I plan to chase DX primarily and hope to 
>learn more about the digital modes, though CW isn't of 
>significant interest at this point.
>
>Given the above, what are your recommendations for the top three options for a brand new K3/100?
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