Jim When one makes it personal I'm done Have a happy day and enjoy ham radio 72
> On May 30, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > >> On Mon,5/30/2016 4:50 AM, D Howard wrote: >> I thought at the price I paid for the KX3 I shouldn't have to do the >> compensation nor run the KX3 at such reduced power once compensated. My >> trusty old FT817 worked fine. > > That's your problem, not Elecraft's. The KX3 was specifically designed as a > backpacking radio that could also do other things. AFAIK, neither Wayne nor > Eric is a JT65 op or a VHF op, so they didn't think of the thermal issue > until users brought it up. When they did, Elecraft developed the temperature > compensation as a solution and also improved the heat sink. I did both to my > KX3. It took about three hours, half of which was reading the instructions > and cooling the radio for the second part of the procedure. > > Reading ARRL Lab test reports clearly shows that Your "trusty old FT817" > isn't one-tenth the radio that the KX3 is. The KX3 is FAR cleaner on TX and > FAR superior on RX. But the KX3 is fundamentally an HF + 6M radio, not a 2M > radio. A few weeks ago, we used a KX3 with the KXPA100 and PX3 for a very > successful mobile run in the 7th Area QSO Party. Slide #8 in > k9yc.com/7QP.pdf shows the setup that W6GJB put together. W6GJB drove while > W6JTI operated, riding shotgun. The KXPA100 is on the floor of the back seat. > > 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 va...@me.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
