[Elecraft] K3S

[Bill Frantz]

I think Grant has hit the major issue of new K3s vs upgrade a 
K3. One possibility for the budget minded is to buy a minimum 
K3s and pull as many option boards, filters, etc. from the K3 as 
possible. Then enjoy a K3/10 for the vacation home or sell it. I 
fear that prices for used K3's will be depressed as more come on 
the market than there are buyers. The prices will probably come 
back up after the major rush to the new radio dies down and 
supply/demand evens out.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 5/14/15 at 12:04 PM, nq5t at tx.rr.com (GRANT YOUNGMAN) wrote:

>Seems to me that an important question is the impact on overall 
>performance of the lower RF and quantization noise with the 
>K3S’s new RF board, since this is not being made available 
>for retrofit into the K3.  Hopefully, Elecraft or an early K3S 
>adopter with the ability to measure the difference will provide 
>some hard information.  That’s pretty much going to be my 
>decision point about whether to drop $$ on upgrading other 
>parts of my K3 or just biting the bullet, reducing my ability 
>to eat for a few months later in retirement, and upgrading the 
>whole thing.  Or not … since given my usual operating habits, 
>even the K3 is more radio than I need ;-)

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