[Elecraft] K3S vs. K3

[AD6XY]

Too early I would say. To me it seems they have concentrated on improving the
receiver phase noise, which is a very important figure, especially for SSB
but the rest of the changes don't seem especially ground breaking. Maybe
that's expected because there isn't so much wrong with the original K3. It
means though that we won't all feel the need to upgrade our current K3 to
S-class just yet.

The man made noise levels at HF now mean that further receiver improvements
are diminishing benefits- i.e. above a certain level, receiver performance
is no longer the constraint and there is not a lot more a receiver could do,
even if perfected.

I would really like to see now  is a K3v without all that unnecessary HF
stuff in there. Something optimised VHF and up and only VHF and up. 

What surprised me was the serial number - 10000 and up. I thought they must
have sold more than 10000 units already. 

Mike



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