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

[Stephan Forth]

The connectors are well known GX16/12 connectors which are used in the aviation market.

73, Stephan 

Am 3. September 2020 21:00:29 MESZ schrieb Grant Youngman <ghyoungman at gmail.com>:
>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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Stephan Forth
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