N1LQ-Dave...this is starting to remind me of the Apple iPhone drama...about
every 6 months a new iPhone comes out that's "better" than the previous one.
Sorta makes you wonder why they just didn't make the damn thing that way in the
first place, I think we all know why. I've owned all the iPhones from the very
first one up to the recently new 6 Plus w/128gig hard drive & now the 6s Plus
is out! Honestly!!!??? I've had gripes about all of them, use to be size (to
small), then camera resolution, then software bugs & the OS, etcetera etcetera
etcetera. Getting off topic...back to the radio...I have 3 radios inline
including a mid serial number 3,000 something K3. I paid tooooooo damn much for
all of them and am quite sure I can survive without the latest & greatest
version of the K3...the "s" line...ya just know that some day real soon there
will be the next latest & greatest K4 or some nonsense out making the new K3s
old news. I can think of about a hundred other things I'd rather do with the
$$$$ than burn it on another ham radio but then again, ham radio isn't my life
or my passion, it's just a hobby. In the end it's a personal decision you have
to make based on many factors. Do you really need this new version or just want
it? It sounds like you have a great radio now...take a trip to the South
Pacific with the wife instead is my advice (at least one of you could go for
the same money maybe :), avoid getting that feeling of wondering why you blew
perfectly good money on something you really didn't need in the first place. I
find that it's the "wanting" that's the real drug, after you get the new
"thing", it's newness wears off pretty quick & then it's just the same old same
old again. Skip this version and wait for the next one is probably good advice
too, maybe the best advice, you know that it's already being thought about & it
is after all...inevitable. I'm staying pat until many of the physical features
of the radio are addressed...& they will be...eventually, the performance
upgrades will be in that future radio too. Don't get on the merry-go-round as I
did with all the different models of the iPhone, it's simply a waste of
perfectly good money better spent elsewhere or even invested and or saved. Just
my two cents!
kd0bcf
"If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the
most evident and the clearest?”
-Percy Bysshe Shelley,
"The Necessity of Atheism" 1811
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