[Elecraft] K3S vs. K3

[David Cole]

Hi,
I bought mine a year ago, and it is in the 8000 range.
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On Sat, 2015-05-16 at 03:09 -0700, AD6XY wrote:
> 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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