Daniel
I did not know that I would find you here also a voice from someone who knows both radios this morning I was working KH2L on 40m and found what you are saying to be true. Over the weekend worked several new band countries on 80m was good for a change with the contest and the K3 fared well on 80m also better than the 5000 but when I started on 20/15/12/10m I thought it was just me not know how to adjust the K3. Many of my problems are not being well acquainted with the K3 still studying the manual and Fred Cady's book. Thanks again for your post I was wishing that I had not posted but did receive some good info that I didn't have when I started. So I guess I'll be more careful of what I post in the future it's not good here to like any other radio I see. But I really do like my Elecrafts or wouldn't have bought so much from them lol. Thx & 73, Fred/N0AZZ From: VE3GNO Daniel [mailto:yo3...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 5:23 AM To: Fred Smith; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 DNR Hi Fred, I have a similar set-up with yours, on one side K3+P3 and other side FT5K+SM5K+LPpan both connected to Quadra amp. My primary choise for low bands is K3 due excellent flexibility of AGC and static noise exclusion from AGC loop. My FT5K is batch March 2010 and K3 is Dec 2011 with 2.7/2.1/400/250 roofs with dual RX. Side by side in low bands (40 and lower) the K3 performs far better than FT5K mainly due AGC/NR setting combination, on higher bands mostly in SSB my choise is FT5K due excellent DNR algorithms. Now there is no perfect radio in the world, in my humble oppinion the combination K3+FT5K is the killing one. BTW, I feed both audio outputs in SM5K speakers via a Behringer HA4700 (feeding also two headphones and one computer sound card) so I spent many hours A/B analysis. Another remark, the learning curve of K3 was few times longer than FT5K, I still play around with different DSP/AGC/NB combinations in different band conditions, I have abt 4-5 standard setting combinations for CW/SSB/digitals, antenna type, prop cond type. vy73 de VE3GNO Daniel www.qrz.com/db/ve3gno From: Fred Smith <m...@mo-net.com> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 5:39:01 AM Subject: [Elecraft] K3 DNR I have been a Yaesu fan for many years and currently have a FTDX-5000MP and a Quadra amp in essence a 1kw radio in every way from 6-160m. It is an excellent radio and a great receiver to boot as you all know I'm sure. I have owned it for 30 months and never had one issue with it was the second one delivered in the US. Wanting to try something new I decided to buy a K3 what could be wrong with owning the #1 &2 radios on all the tests. Long story short now I have a loaded K2/100, 2 K3/100's one of them loaded and the other on the way, a P3/SVGA and will add a second plus a XG3. These darned Elecrafts are a real pain they should make you have a prescription from your Doctor before you ever order one and that should have a warning label about becoming addictive. Rather than going with an Elecraft tuner and amp I decided to go another direction that gave me a few more options an Alpha amp and a new Alpha 4040 auto tuned soon to be released. In the interim I'm using a Palstar AT-Auto till the Alpha gets here the last of Sept or Oct. Just finished ordering a Array Solutions Six Pack SO2R Dual Controller for the K3's and a Bandmaster with a few extras. Being rather new to Elecraft I have only had my K3's for about a month I'm still searching for a way to continuously adjust the DNR from the very lowest to the most aggressive with a dial while listing. I'm able to do this with my FTDX-5000 and find it to be one of my most used features and most effective I might add with that ability. Is there a way for me to setup a knob to adjust the DNR like that in the K3, I'm sure there must be and it's just me not finding it, that good of a feature I'm sure would not be left out. Thx to all & 73, Fred/N0AZZ ______________________________________________________________ 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
