An equally important consideration for any rig, SDR or not, is what kind of signal you are transmitting. All of the FLEX rigs have a very bad reputation for transmitting lots of wideband phase noise, while the KX3 is near the top of the heap for cleanliness of signal. The difference between the two is not slight ... it is spectacular.
Coincidentally enough, there was a very recent thread here discussing this very topic. Based upon the published test results I've seen, if everyone used FLEX SDR rigs nobody would enjoy SDR rigs ... or any other rigs for that matter. Check out http://www.sm5bsz.com/dynrange/dubus313.pdf for the details.
73, Dave AB7E On 12/31/2013 7:35 AM, Craig Schroeder wrote:
Happy New Year, I want to move into the hobby aspects of SDR and have narrowed my list to the KX3 with 100 watt Amp or a Flex 3000. I have been told that though the KX3 will connect to a PC it is not a "full" SDR radio (my understanding of "full" is in regard to signal processing but there may be other factors implied that I am not aware of being new to the SDR world). If this perspective is on target, what are the important SDR limitations with the KX3 that I should consider? If there are no important limitations, I do like the form factor and knobs on the KX3 over the Flex software-only interface. Thank you, Craig Schroeder KD0TXL ______________________________________________________________ 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
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