[Elecraft] K3S vs. K3

[Harry Yingst via Elecraft]

I just got a KX3 about 2 weeks ago it's SN is  high 7000's



      From: Walter Underwood <wunder at wunderwood.org>
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 Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2015 11:03 AM
 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3S vs. K3
   
I think the K3 serial numbers recently crossed 9000. KX3 numbers are over 9000.

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On May 16, 2015, at 6:52 AM, David Cole <dave at nk7z.net> wrote:

> 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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