[Elecraft] Elecraft IC-7610,

Tue May 21 12:08:20 EDT 2019

I'd also like to share my experience of coming upon the K4. I am a long time user of Flex SDR radios. I still have an operational 5000, and my main SDR for the past half dozen or so years has been a 6700. All the while I have kept a conventional radio along side. I like to listen and experiment with the Flex, but it's the conventional radio I really love to operate.

My conventional radio is a now antique Kenwood TS-950sdx. I have kept it so long because in searching I have not found a replacement. The K3s has long been a top candidate and if I lost my old friend, would have gone that route. The Icom 7610 looks interesting. It's more of a hybrid, with SDR features but built like a conventional radio. It had been highly recommended, and I was considering it.

Then a few days ago along comes the K4 announcement. My long experience with both conventional and SDR radios brought me to realize immediately, this is it! Wayne's earlier email hits many of the spots that are attractive. I especially like the mini-panadapters, which I do with the 6700, but in a very cumbersome way. But the main attraction is the promise that it will behave like -- have the look and feel of -- a conventional radio, while being saturated with SDR features to the core.

I actually pre-ordered a K4D soon after absorbing the specifications. So while the 6700 will remain an important part of my station for the forseeable future, I'm on board and excited about the coming K4!

Tks,

73 Ed w2rf

E.H. Russell, w2rf

706 New England Rd

Cape May NJ 08204

Mobile 609-827-2707

Email  <mailto:ehr at qrv.com> ehr at qrv.com

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Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft IC-7610,

Hey Charlie,

If you don’t mind I’ll share my thoughts coming from a Flex 6400 owner(I do own a KX2 and KX3 too). Last year I moved to the Flex because at that time it appeared to be the best option in the SDR world. I’ve always loved Elecraft but the K3S and P3 were a bit out of my price range at the time and didn’t have some of the features I was looking for since I was looking more to SDR type products.

Fast forward to today with the K4 I am super impressed and it’s features out way those of the Flex. That’s my opinion. One in particular, which Wayne stated in this tread is the K4’s modularity. This is one thing that has been in the back of my mind ever since owning the Flex. As far a I can tell Flex (along with Icom, Yeasu, Kenwood) doesn’t have the ability built into the hardware. At least they haven’t said and I’m sure they would have if they did. This is a concern. Not only do Flex owners have to pay for software updates, at what point will they have to upgrade the hardware to take advantage of new features in software that can only be used with newer hardware such as ADC? That’s huge in my mind and with Elecraft track record with older models still being sold is a big advantage.

The 7610 and radios like Flex are wonderful radios, don’t get me wrong, but I feel Elecraft is on the right and better track when it comes to listening to their customers and producing a radio that works and works well for all types of ham operator.

Hopefully I’ll be a K4 owner one day so I can have that piece of mind that it will serve well for years to come.

Scott N1SER

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