[Elecraft] Is the Lab599 TX500 a "rip-off" of the KX3?

[Ron Manfredi]

It is another in an ever-growing line of low-power SDR transceivers.

It is carried by Ham Radio Outlet, (they project mid-September delivery) 
is FCC approved, and will have repair facilities in the U.S.    There 
are some video reviews of it, along with a Groups.io page, and like 
almost everything else, it has some good points and somebad points and 
some missing features.   It remains to be seen as to how well it will 
sell.   I don't see it as a direct competitor to the KX series though.


Ron  WA2EIO


On 9/3/2020 3:00 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:
> There are going to be a lot of nice little radios. This may be a really good radio.  Do you know that?  I don’t.
>
> Personally, I wouldn’t touch this thing with a 10 ft pole.  No battery; no ATU; unknown specs; unknown, if any, support; non-standard connectors that won’t fit anything else;  and on.  It looks “cool”, and that will certainly appeal to some.  But it’s more than the radio that has to be carried in the end, and doesn’t come from a trusted source with a track record.  Will you be able to read the display in the sunlight?
>
> Grant NQ5T
>
>> On Sep 3, 2020, at 2:30 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
>>
>> It is certainly not a clone. It draws more RX current. It is a thinner. The panadapter is built in.
>>
>> I didn't spend enough time looking at it to form a judgement other than it appeals to the same uses as the KX3 and is not a clone.
>>
>> 73 Bill AE6JV
>>
>> On 9/3/20 at 1:58 PM, johnae5x at gmail.com (John Harper) wrote:
>>
>>> As someone who has one of these radios on order, I'd like to know if this
>>> is fake news or true fact:
>>>
>>> "This rig is copied from the KX-3. I was told this from a reliable source
>>> inside Elecraft."
>>>
>>> Source:
>>> https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/lab599-discovery-tx-500.683461/page-2
>>>
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