[Elecraft] K3 display is dated.

[Jim Brown]

My sentiments exactly.  Everything I need to see and all the controls I 
need for day to day operation is on the K3/K3S front panel and easy to 
find/use.  This concern with appearances strongly reminds me of consumer 
audio and video products, which have small white lettering on a black 
chassis that's so hard to read that you need to look up close with a 
flashlight! My last HF rigs were a pair of used FT1000MPs. Took up WAY 
too much space on my desktop, cluttered display, much less intuitive, 
difficult/poorly documented menu structure, much more confusing, than 
the K3 that replaced them.

Because I use my much more compact KX3 only occasionally for portable 
operations, I do find myself looking for controls. But they're labeled, 
so I eventually find them. :)

I don't buy stuff to impress my friends. I buy it to use it!

73, Jim K9YC

On Tue,5/30/2017 6:08 PM, William Levy wrote:
> I don't care about the display. I care about how the radio works. How it
> hears and how it talks.
> How it works in contest or expedition environments. If display is that
> important you buy a FLEX and it's as big as can be.