[Elecraft] K3 to IC-7800 Comparison?

[Jim Brown]

On Sun,9/13/2015 11:51 PM, Adam Farson wrote:
> For Jim K9YC:

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the description of your work. Could you take the time to 
respond to recent posts by W4TV and W4BQF in this thread?

73, Jim

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Adam is an out an out Icom evangelist - not exactly unbiased.

> An example is in the footnote for the Flex-6700, which has no
> preselector for the range where he had to do his measurements, which
> may have caused that radio to measure worse than it would on the ham
> bands.

On the other hand Adam limits noise power for direct sampling SDR
designs to a lower level than used with traditional up/down conversion
transceivers.  The lower noise power input gives the direct sampling
designs an unfair advantage be ignoring strong signal environments.

73,

   ... Joe, W4TV

I certainly agree with Joe about Adam! I've never heard such prejudicial
explanations trying to justify Icom's innocence for final transistor
failures in the IC-7700's. He took all reports of final failures and said he
was going to forward them to Icom, but very few of us ever believed he
actually forwarded any information to Icom from IC-7700 users about the
failures. And IF did, there was never any response from Japan.
I sold my IC-7700, not because the finals failed, but because the threat of
failure was there every time I turned that radio ON.

73,
Tom - W4BQF