[Elecraft] The K3 and the future

[Jim Brown]

On Sat,9/20/2014 11:34 PM, Vic Rosenthal K2VCO wrote:
> The K3 is still a great transceiver. For my purposes, there is nothing 
> better out there for a reasonable price. But the competition isn't 
> sitting still. And as everybody knows, there are some areas in which 
> the K3 could be markedly improved (cleaning up the audio artifacts in 
> QSK is my personal favorite). 

Hi Vic,

You've been busy moving, and may have missed this.

k9yc.com/TXNoise.pdf

This report, which simply compares and analyzes ARRL measurements, shows 
that in the realm of producing a clean signal, the K3 is an order of 
magnitude better than its closest competitor, the TS590S, two orders of 
magnitude better than Icom's "best," and FOUR orders of magnitude better 
than Yaesu. For the non-math folks among us, an order of magnitude is 
10X. So the K3 is more than 100 times cleaner than ICOM's most expensive 
stuff, and more than 10,000X cleaner than even the most expensive of 
current Yaesu rigs.

BTW -- I was hanging with K6RBtodaypreparing for CQP, and he's hoping to 
look you up on an upcoming trip to 4X.

73, Jim K9YC