[Elecraft] Advice on K3 versus KX3

[Bill Frantz]

On 5/23/21 at 7:01 PM, jh3sif at sumaq.jp (Keith Onishi) wrote:

>Listening CW in crowded situation like contesting.  K3 is much better than KX3.
>Operating in digital mode, you can neither listen to receiving 
>signals nor monitor your own transmitting audio with KX3.

(No operating session is really complete without at least one 
SSB, digital, and CW QSO.)

I like digital modes and run both radios, the KX3 for portable 
operations and the K3 for "in the shack". Switching between 
digital and SSB on the KX3 is a PITA compared with the K3. On 
the KX3 I have to:

   Unplug the microphone and plug in the computer sound card.
   Turn off the mic bias.
   Re-adjust the mic level.
   Turn on the VOX.

On the K3 I just have to turn on the VOX. All the cables stay in place.

On the KX3, I monitor the RX audio with a spliter cable feeding 
headphones and my computer. (I don't generally monitor TX audio 
with headphones on either radio.) I do tune RTTY via the 
monitored audio.

73 Bill AE6JV

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