[Elecraft] The Big Three...

[K9FD]

Damn Charles your reading comprehension needs work

I never said at all anything about Elecraft and even said I own 3 - K3s
in my station

Get a life.
> Merv,
>
> I am curious.  If you think K3’s are “losers” then why are you on the Elecraft Reflector message board in the first place?
>
> 73
> Charles
> W4PPP
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2020, at 12:26 PM, K9FD <merv.k9fd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree Paul,  and my comment was to play the stats in jest.
>
> when the glass is half full you can see it from both sides,
>
> I did that to stir the  Elecraft kool aide crew.
>
> Having contested many many years in  my past life,  I dont own
> 3 - K3 radios because they are losers,  and nope I  am not in the
> class of any one who qualifies for WRTC.  not even close,
> and at 75 I am not progressing any longer,  I am on  the slipping
> side of downhill.
>
> 73 Merv K9FD
>> Merv
>>
>> Now we entering the arena of stats can tell you whatever you want them to tell you!
>>
>> In fairness only one of the top teams was a US team (I think) and 3 of the top 15 were US. Maybe radio choice for the Europeans is more to do with ICOM et al possibly having a more direct sales and support presence in EU versus Elecraft which is via local distributors and possibly requiring the gear to return to Cal for repair. Just a guess ....
>>
>> I think the WRTC leader role for the Boston/NE one had more US teams placing. I’m sure a story exists around home team advantage.
>>
>> I can only reiterate that anyone who participates in WRTC has to be pretty awesome and I wish I had 1% of their skills!!
>>
>> Stats are fun.
>>
>> Paul Gacek
>>
>>> On Mar 29, 2020, at 8:50 AM, K9FD <merv.k9fd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> SO lets see,  we are saying that 50 percent used Elecraft,  and out of the top 3 no one did,
>>> and most who used Elecraft were in the bottom.
>>> So was it the radio or the operator?
>>> If you look at it from one point of view,  loosers used Elecraft..
>>>
>>> Merv K9FD,   and I own 3 - k3 radios so not biased.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Wasn't my subject line. But I'll see your four and raise it to five: Elecraft, Flex, Icom, Kenwood and Yaesu.
>>>>
>>>> Wes  N7WS
>>>>
>>>>> On 3/29/2020 6:55 AM, Michael Walker wrote:
>>>>> I find you mention the big 3, but it is really the big 4.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike va3mw
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 9:28 AM Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org <mailto:wes_n7ws at triconet.org>> wrote:
>>>>>      FWIW. I took a cursory look at the top 10 to see what they were using.
>>>>>
>>>>>      You have to get to 5th place to find a pair of K3s.  Sixth and 7th places use
>>>>>      one K3 and something else for the second radio.
>>>>>
>>>>>      So four out of 20 radios were K3s.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Also of interest 6 out of 10 used WinTest with 4 using N1MM+.
>>>>>
>>>>>      Wes  N7WS
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>      On 3/29/2020 2:50 AM, Paul Gacek via Elecraft wrote:
>>>>>      > If you follow the link you can see what radios the 50+ WRTC 2018
>>>>>      participant teams used.
>>>>>      >
>>>>>      > Lots of K3.
>>>>>      >
>>>>>      > http://wrtc2018.de/competition/finalscores.php
>>>>>      >
>>>>>      > Paul
>>>>>      > W6PNG/M0SNA
>>>>>      > www.nomadic.blog
>>>>>
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