[Elecraft] [Elecraft-K3] K3S to be discontinued

[Scott Manthe]

How much money would you like to bet? As much as Eric and Wayne? If your 
assertion were true, no one would buy a Flex, or an Icom or a FTDX-101. 
Hams love new stuff and there's a reason that Wayne and Eric are willing 
to bet their actual money against your virtual money that lots of ops 
will want a K4. If you've been following this list, people have been 
asking for a replacement for the K3/K3S for a decade. I'm pretty sure if 
Elecraft builds it, the customers will come.

The K4 will likely have a cleaner signal than the K3S due to predistortion.

73,
Scott N9AA


On 11/4/19 9:42 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
>
> I don't want to look like I'm beating a dead horse so this will be my 
> last comment on the subject, but my point was that I don't think very 
> many contest stations or DXpeditions are going to sell their K3s rigs 
> to buy a K4 (I don't see a compelling reason for them to do so), so 
> I'm not sure how much value there is in it being a 12 volt rig even if 
> the price range is similar.   If anyone views that differently I'd 
> like to hear their reasoning.
>
> And I'd bet a lot of money that most contesters or DXpedition 
> operators would be glued to their laptop screens and punching keyboard 
> buttons instead of watching the LCD display on the rig. I know that I 
> have operated entire major contests without ever touching anything 
> except the tuning knob on my K3.  Everything else I need to do is 
> controllable from N1MM+.
>
> The capability for future features could of course prove me wrong on 
> both accounts, but for now it just doesn't seem to me that they would 
> likely override the immediate value in having a significantly cleaner 
> signal.  Clearly Elecraft has made their choice, for better or for worse.
>
> Done now.  ;)
>
> 73,
> Dave   AB7E
>
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