You know, the interesting thing about Elecraft and the K3 in particular is that one can form an opinion of it's superiority ONLY after using it it for a little while. I don't think it can be done by just looking at it. In fact, by just looking at it for a few minutes one forms the exact opposite opinion. When i built my K3 (SN 8086) - i had a bunch of ham buddies come and take a short look at it. I could see it in their faces: this guy's an idiot for paying almost $4300 for THIS?!?!?!? Only one of these guys actually sat down and drove it for a few minutes. He then told everyone that it has to be the quietest and most adjustable receiver he'd ever seen. And naturally people take it with a grain of salt because they'd already seen it and they couldn't possibly be wrong about it, right?
But i just smile and grin to myself anytime a conversation about my K3 surfaces. i KNOW what i bought :-) And that's all that matters. Thanks, Elecraft. P.S. BEfore i ordered my K3 - i made Wayne (or Eric) and Lisa promise me that K4 won't be announced any time soon :-) So all this talk about it is premature at best. Sorry. Slava B W2RMS On Apr 17, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > On 4/17/2014 12:32 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: >> I just think the bar was raised dramatically when Elecraft released the K3. > > That's exactly how I perceived it in 2008, and I still see it that way. My > FT1000MPs went out the door as soon as the K3s showed up. > > 73, Jim K9YC > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to sla...@nullserv.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
