[Elecraft] K3 & K3S are GREAT radios!

[Rich - K1HTV]

Gary,
   Congrats on working VK0EK on 160M with your K3S. Yes, it is a great radio. I'm using the K3 with the synthesizer upgrades made to both main and sub receivers. A few weeks ago I worked a super pee weak 4S7BRG on 40M for #313 on that band with 100 Watts and a wire antenna. When the rare VP8STI (So. Sandwich) and VP8STG (So. Georgia) DXpeditions came on the air, my barefoot K3 again did its thing, adding Topband countries #226 & #227 to my 100 Watt 160 Meter totals. 

The K3 with its 200 Hz roofing filters, DSP further reducing the bandwith to 50 Hz, then the APF further tightening the BW to a sharp 5 Hz peak made it possible to hear those weak signals through my local noise. Having K3S transceivers on the Antarctic end of the path sure helped those 160M QSOs make it into the K1HTV log.

Now I need to focus on working VK0EK and FT4JA for even more Topband DX with my K3, a great radio!

73,
Rich - K1HTV
 
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Gary, KA1J wrote:

I'm not the one here with the most money,
I'm absolutely positive of that, but that
said; I can buy any rig I want and the
dollars spent wouldn't in any way affect
me, or anything I do in the future.

I just bought a K3S because of the many
things it represents but I'm not a martyr
to buy USA when something else is better
or, buy something wonderful that is
software based only like the Flex 6700; I
bought the K3s because to my discovery, it
is the finest radio out there. Yes, this
is the Elecraft reflector so most of us
are already on board but I bought this
radio (I upgraded from an updated K3)
because it is to me, the pinnacle of
today's equipment.

I just worked the VK0KE on 160 last night.
I honestly, to God do not think that any
radio I have ever owned before, save the
K3 with the updated synthesizer, would
have heard the incredibly diminutive
signal that I heard reply to me. I was the
first NA station to post them in the
cluster yesterday and that is because of
the quality of this radio. The K3s Rocks.

IC-7300 Video... Pffttt.

73,

Gary
Gary
KA12J