I think I love my K2 just a little more than my K3 just because I spent the time and effort building it one piece at a time. While the K3 is an exceptional performer, the K2 is still very superior to so many other rigs and is an absolute pleasure to operate. Long live the K2. (Some years ago while chatting with Wayne and Eric, they said that they had purchased a substantial quantity of the critical through-hole components most likely to disappear from the market. So, I suspect that the K2 will be around for quite some time. I'm willing to take bets it will still be here in 10 years)
73, Doug -- K0DXV On 6/3/2011 4:51 PM, Jim Lowman wrote: > You might be waiting a long time, Al, since having value as an > unassembled kit would > require that Elecraft no longer produce the kit in question. > > Yet another thing that I like about the Elecraft design philosophy. > Just because they > came up with the K3, they didn't stop selling the K2. In fact, consider > the following: > > I started out with the basic 10w K2, and added options as needed over > the years. > Recently I've been thinking about getting the 60m option, which includes the > transverter interface. When the K2 was introduced, we didn't have any > spectrum > allocated on 60m, and the concept of interfacing seamlessly with a > transverter > was probably a distant vision at best. But now, 10+ years later, these > features have > been incorporated into the design of the K2 and can now be added as desired. > > Try that with the Big Three. You can bet that when 60m became available > to hams, it > would be on their latest and greatest new radio, with no hope for > backward compatibility > with prior models. > > Elecraft and Ten-Tec are OK in my book. With the exception of the > FT-817 and FT-847, > every radio in the shack here is from a current or past US manufacturer. > > 72/73 de Jim - AD6CW > > On 6/3/2011 11:56 AM, Al Lorona wrote: >> At that time I also wondered (after seeing the prices of original unopened >> Heathkits on eBay) whether it wouldn't be a great retirement investment >> to stockpile a few unopened and unbuilt Elecraft kits in the attic. >> >> >> Al W6LX >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
