Is there a rig out there that doesn't require a learning curve? Are hams
mere plug-and-play guys and too lazy to "read the manual"? Can anyone
break a pileup the first hour after purchasing an FT5K or IC7800? I
remember a comment I read just after I got my previous rig (an FT1000MP)
in 2001: "carefully study he manual, as with this rig, it is easy to
turn buttons until you don't hear a thing!"
The K3 has 44 buttons. My FT1000MP had twice as many, which would hardly
accommodate the size of a K3...
During the first K3 DXped (to Ducie Island), I read on their website
that none of the op's had had any problems using the K3, although most
probably not everyone of them - if at all - had one in his own shack at
the time. And now, it seems to have become the standard rig for many
DXpeditions! That tells a lot.
Gary's comment is right on target:
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder somebody once told me!
Performance to me IS everything....eye candy has never helped in a pileup."
I second that...
Maybe they could get an empty enclosure "with curves and swirls or
plastic molding" from one of the K/I/Y and place it next to the K3 so
they get both: performance AND eye candy...
73
Richard - HB9ANM
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