[Elecraft] Need Advice

[GRANT YOUNGMAN]

You’ll have more than 90% of a K3S if you have kept up with the mods and offered upgrades over time.

The main differences would be (1) an improved 4-layer RF board with a reduced noise profile, (2) improved (lower) IMD in the audio section of the new DSP board for speaker outputs (this was supposed to be made available for the K3, but nothing has been heard about it’s status), (3) “hard” switching to bypass the new tuner module, and (4) a fancier escutcheon.

Everyone’s mileage varies on this, of course.  I have elected to keep my fully-loaded and fully-upgraded K3 and not go through the exercise of "unbundling”  the installed options, selling the barebones K3, buying and rebuilding a K3S. and ending up in the hole financially.  I think the differences would be completely unnoticeable by most, even if it makes them feel better about their place in the world :-)

I’m saving the $$ involved and putting them in the whatever-the-next-major-Elecraft-radio-is piggy bank :-)

Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091, KX3 #8342




> On May 2, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Ed via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> I have had my K3 for a few years and have always kept it up to date.  It seems cheaper than taking a loss in selling it and springing for a K3S. I am about to send it in again for the new synth boards and DSP board swap, etc. 
> 
> In the end, I will have 90% of a K3S. Is this the way to go?
>