[Elecraft] K4 Pricing Posted

[JR]

K9YC said ... You get what you pay for. Yaesu has been making very dirty radios -- clicks
and splatter have been the rule.

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There is too much parochialism in ham radio.

A couple of ops say this, failing to prove the claim, or substantiate it applies beyond a couple of isolated cases.  While Mr. Sherwood knows ONE guy with a noisy FT3000,  there are loads of them in service in my market, and nobody considers them poor neighbors.  If they are all that bad, we would know it.   Such unsubstantiated claims reminds me of a similar row on the TT reflector, where some guy in Germany claimed the TS-890 is a "noise machine" compared to the TT Eagle - and failed to document more than two or three alleged cases, and today recommends the TS-890 as a good rig to buy!  K9YC published a paper purporting to document and quantify transmitter noise figures - which belies the claim and ultimately validates what the ARRL Lab told me - namely neither rig is a problem.  And, yet, the claim persists.

So, great ... he we go again.  More unsubstantiated nonsense.  This sort of parochialism both off-topic and does a disservice.  K8JHR