[Elecraft] Elecraft SP3 External Speaker details

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My shack is a bit cramped too. Currently I have a couple of really inadequate computer speakers sitting atop another rig near the K3/P3 combo. That rig sits atop the RF deck of an ALS-600, which itself sits on top of a KAT500 that's in turn sitting on top of a now-unused MFJ-998.
So that's quite a "tech stack" already.
Perhaps the advent of the SP3 will give me a reason to rearrange all that stuff so that I can have a good speaker (or two :)). Come to think of it, replacing the ALS-600 with a KPA500 would free up a bit of space as well and improve aesthetics at the same time. Wayne, you may have just engineered another Elecraft tipping point.
73, Tyler, KC2LST

 


     On Saturday, September 12, 2015 2:23 PM, Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com> wrote:
   

 Wayne,

I already have a KX3 and I love it for portable QRP work.  The very idea of hiding it away in
an SP3 though is just wrong.  Of course, you would never do that — would you?


73, phil, K7PEH


> On Sep 12, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:
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> Phil,
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> If you ever decide to seriously downsize, you can mount a KX3 inside an SP3.
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> Wayne
> N6KR
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> On Sep 12, 2015, at 11:05 AM, Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com> wrote:
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>> The idea of producing a matching speaker is inevitable given the history of matching speakers (Note: obviously the idea of “matching” has different interpretations by different vendors)….
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>> ...But, unfortunately, I have no plans to buy one because I have no room for its matchability to be useful as
>> my current K-line sits in a nice line up: K3, P3, KPA500 and there is no more room for another
>> side-by-side box.  Making room and adding the extra box puts different parts of the K-line too far
>> apart (at least, for me and my operating comfort).
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>> So, here I am with my favorite rig, the K3 and maybe the last vendor (Elecraft) that I will ever buy from as long
>> as they keep up their good work, and the first radio (K3) in my personal history without its own matching
>> speaker due merely  to the lack of space on my desk top.
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