Fair comment, Joe :-) Just trying to avoid the super sized radio concept. Rather see standalone purpose built radios, yes I know it can mean multiple units to make a station. If one breaks, you are not totally off air and they are less complex to drive.......I need a good replacement for my 736R, that is easy to use field portable :-)
73, Jack. VK4JRC Sent from my iPad On 27/07/2011, at 1:48 PM, "Joe Subich, W4TV" <li...@subich.com> wrote: > > > The K4 would be better off, with NO HF :-) > > Why? Considering that 28 MHz is required as the IF for the VHF/UHF > "band modules" (transverters) and the base K3/K4 would include the > 8/10 Watt six meter capability, there is no cost difference/impact. > > I would think that providing a way to keep the sub-receiver active > during transmit, allowing a second transverter to feed the sub RX > for cross band/multi band receive, and providing an "inverted link" > mode for the VFOs (for inverted transponder satellite work) would > make the K3/10 with XV stack essentially the perfect VHF/UHF rig - > other than the lack of a large case to hold the XV stack internally. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > > On 7/26/2011 11:21 PM, Jack Chomley wrote: >> >> The K4 would be better off, with NO HF :-) Similar to the 736R and the later >> Icom 910H. >> Now that the 910H has been replaced with the higher priced Icom 9100, that >> includes HF. >> The market is short on VHF/UHF only radios with Multimode and SAT >> capability, as standalone radios. >> >> 73, >> >> Jack VK4JRC >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 27/07/2011, at 12:18 PM, "Joe Subich, W4TV"<li...@subich.com> wrote: >> >>> ______________________________________________________________ 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
